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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Message-ID: <11334@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 17:28:11 GMT
References: <380@motbos.UUCP> <9160@cisunx.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <9160@cisunx.UUCP> mike@cisunx.UUCP (Mike  Elliot) writes:
>Illegally copy software is not immoral if and only if stealing is not
>immoral.

Is it?

I have just invented a matter duplicator.  A friend drove his new BMW
over here this weekend, and we put it in the `original' side; I
shoveled an equal mass of dirt into the hopper, and produced an exact
copy.

Was that immoral?

(Alas, the duplicate and the duplicator were both unstable, and both
just dissolved back into piles of virtual particles.)
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