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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Message-ID: <2843@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 88 13:45:46 GMT
References: <2460@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <2460@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
" ...
" The free market has disadvantages, I admit, but as a reward and incentive
" ...
" If the market is distorted, for example by piracy, then two things will
" happen.

The laws which have the effect of defining software piracy as a crime
are distortions of the free market.  Perhaps they are good laws to have,
since they create a market which might not otherwise exist.  And perhaps
they are not.  But to call piracy a distortion of the free market is a
distortion of language -- an attempt to make a point by an inappropriate
application of a derogative term.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu