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From: sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware & Honesty (Was: Software (and other kinds of) copying)
Message-ID: <458@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG>
Date: 31 Jan 88 00:01:45 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <6649@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <39910@sun.uucp> <6718@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1348@looking.UUCP> <8149@e.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
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Posted: Sat Jan 30 18:01:45 1988

In article <8149@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron ) writes:
>...Mainly because it took advantage of the fact that
>software is so easily copyable. ...

Books are (and have been) copied as well.  I've got a fifty-year-old
copy of Roget's Thesaurus without a copyright, but don't know if that
is so because a pirate publisher didn't register...
-- 
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