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From: mwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Here we go again....
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Date: 28 Apr 88 00:40:22 GMT
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In article <9160@cisunx.UUCP> mike@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Mike  Elliot) writes:
<Illegally copy software is not immoral if and only if stealing is not
<immoral.

Sigh. We went through this just a few months ago. Whether or not
stealing is immoral is easy - it's immoral to take from others without
their permission. Whether or not copying software is stealing is a
matter of opinion. Whether or not it's illegal isn't - it is
(currently) illegal to copy software.

At the same time, we went through a series of explanations of why the
world doesn't need software protection long enough that many people
(me included) got sick of it.

If your memory is so short you don't remember those, or you weren't
here at the time (February?), send e-mail to whichever of the address
below you think will work, and I'll explain. Things on the net will be
ignored, assuming my KILL file doesn't find them.

	<mike
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He was your reason for living				Mike Meyer
So you once said					mwm@berkeley.edu
Now your reason for living				ucbvax!mwm
Has left you half dead					mwm@ucbjade.BITNET