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From: mwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection etc
Message-ID: <7096@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 09:14:35 GMT
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In article <2239@zaphod.UUCP> dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz) writes:
<Before anyone flames because I omitted the part where the
<original owner gets back his Merc (Jag, Rollerskates), that was never
<the point.   The point is the people whose livelihood comes from
<designing/building/selling (...) the Merc (etc) in the first place.  The
<point is also that if you could duplicate things, then the incentive to
<create and improve products and to prosper from doing so would
<disappear.  Can you imagine a world where no one was motivated to
<produce a better tool than MicroSoft Word?

Anyone who's used MicroSoft Word has a motivation to produce a better
tool. Many people also have the ability and energy to do so - that's
why there are so many PD editors, text formatters and word processing
systems.

People also design and build cars for reasons other than expecting to
make a living selling them to other people. For most forms of
creativity, the ability to sell lots of copies motivates only a small
minority of the people engaged in that form of creativy.

	<mike
--
Come all you rolling minstrels,				Mike Meyer
And together we will try,				mwm@berkeley.edu
To rouse the spirit of the air,				ucbvax!mwm
And move the rolling sky.				mwm@ucbjade.BITNET