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From: mwm@eris (Mike (I'm in love with my car) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Keywords: copy protection piracy
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Date: 18 May 88 03:16:35 GMT
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From: mwm@eris (Mike (I'm in love with my car) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Keywords: copy protection piracy
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Date: 18 May 88 03:16:35 GMT
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In article <160@execu.EXECU> dewey@execu.EXECU (dewey henize) writes:
<Do you really think you are going to convince each other on this?

No - that's why I only posted one article, very early in the
discussion.

<So save yourself some problems.  You CAN NOT convince someone who steals 
<copyrighted programs that they shouldn't - the only thing you can occasionally
<convince him/her of is that they might get caught.  And you know how likely
<that will be....

Likewise, you CAN NOT convince someone who thinks that intellectual
property makes sense that it's an oxymoron. You can occasionally
convince them that copying something is not the same thing as stealing
it. But that's not very likely.

	<mike
--
I went down to the hiring fair,				Mike Meyer
For to sell my labor.					mwm@berkeley.edu
I noticed a maid in the very next row,			ucbvax!mwm
I hoped she'd be my neighbor.				mwm@ucbjade.BITNET