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From: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Message-ID: <8@rsoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:05:08 GMT
References: <555@icus.islp.ny.us> <2363@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1334@leah.Albany.Edu> <5769@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <1343@leah.Albany.Edu> <39@microsoft
Reply-To: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Organization: Reiter Software Inc., British Columbia Canada
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In article <105@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
>In article <400@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>>1) Intellectual property *is* property.
>
>I disagree.  Legally, maybe (I don't understand the details), but I don't
>think it should be so.

It _seems_ obvious to me that if software is freely copied then software
developers are not going to make any money.  Are you advocating stronger copy
protection or do you have in mind some non-financial way of encouraging people
to write software?
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