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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Matter Duplicator
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Date: 6 May 88 17:51:09 GMT
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Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster)
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It is immoral to steal software by duplicating it without paying the
designers. The reason it is immmoral is that if you use a dup, instead of
paying for the design, then you penalize the designers, and so discourage
innovation.  If you've got matter duplicators, then the fact the designers
make less monry is less important: if I can trade copies of designs for
edible copies of food, then getting money for my designs is less
important. But, it is still important: so long as matter duplicators
require power, and so long as they take up space and we have to pay rent
on the space, then I'm still going to need to sell my designs. 

I simply can't afford to make a living as a designer, trading designs
for designs and using a matter duplicator to turn designs into food and
clothing, so long as I have to buy power to run my duplicator, and pay
rent to have a place to put my stuff.

Copyright (c) 1988 by David Phillip Oster, All Rights Reserved
--- David Phillip Oster            --When you asked me to live in sin with you
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --I didn't know you meant sloth.
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