Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!actnyc!gcf
From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Message-ID: <867@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 17:02:30 GMT
References: <380@motbos.UUCP> <9160@cisunx.UUCP> <11334@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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In article <11334@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
} 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?

Part of what BMW sells is BMW design, on which they put in a lot
of time, effort, and money (I guess.)  Maybe you should have negotiated
a royalty arrangement.