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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v11INF3:  Poll on copyrights
Message-ID: <1902@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 17:20:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 24 17:20:14 1987
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in article <31219@sun.uucp>, chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) says:

<long flame war about copyrights and authors posting copyrighted software to
the net deleted, in which one person says that if the author is stupid enuf
to post it to the net, the author really doesn't have much to say about
what you do with his creation, and Chuq saying "What about the law?">

> Theft is theft. If you break the law, you break the law. You can rationalize
> all you want, but the bottom line is that you are a thief.

And of course Congressman Greg Tarver (D. Shreveport) is a criminal because
back in the '60s, he used the white mens room at the bus station (he's black),
and was arrested for violation of a city code forbidding just that. And got
arrested several times for creating a public nuisance (especially when a whole
bunch of them sambos sat at the front of a bus and started singing "We Shall
Overcome" :-). 

Talk about morality and ethics if you like. But don't interject The Law (in
capital letters) into the conversation. Laws have nothing to do with either
morality, OR ethics. At least we have THAT lesson left over from the civil
rights movement, even if we today have now forgotten everything else from that
era (as demonstrated by Yuppyism and the "Me Generation").

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