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From: michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Message-ID: <245@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 17:49:43 GMT
References: <555@icus.islp.ny.us> <2363@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1334@leah.Albany.Edu> <5769@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <1343@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <1343@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes:

>Wait a second! So what you're saying is that its okay to pirate stuff if
>you can't afford to buy it? That's insane! Can I steal your car  because
>I can't afford one myself?

Whoa thar! We are talking about copying. This has *nothing* to do with theft.
Maybe you *can* copy my car if you can't afford one yourself. Wouldn't that
make for a kinder, gentler nation?

-- 
Where now are those who in times past have opposed the Group of Seventeen?

Michael Hamel           
University of Otago                        ..!ucbvax!michael@otago.ac.nz