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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Message-ID: <1058@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 16:05:19 GMT
References: <1606@looking.UUCP> <493@sering.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada
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Posted: Tue May 17 12:05:19 1988

In article <493@sering.cwi.nl> fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani) writes:
>> It is immoral to misappropriate somebody else's creative efforts against
>> their will.
>Nonsense. Copying somebody else's creative efforts is a creative effort
>in itself, you are creating something, if it is your idea or not.

Nonsense. Copying somebody else's creative efforts is a creative effort
in itself, you are creating something, if it is your idea or not.

Wow.  Aren't the above two lines a paragon of creativity!! (:-)

>> Why is that hard to understand?
>Because worldwide the lack of respect towards other people's
>properties has grown immensely, that's what we call Freedom.

No......that's what we call anarchy.

Frankly, seeing freedom equated with the right to tread roughshod over the
property of others, intellectual or otherwise, is a distortion which
disturbs me strangely.  In this case however I am willing to rest fairly
easy, as the whole posting was ah... a little off the beaten track!

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