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From: everett@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Everett Kaser)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <102760011@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 89 16:56:16 GMT
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/ dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) / 12:27 pm  Mar 21, 1989 /

>But most people haven't addressed an issue I raised.  Very briefly, the
>question is:
>
>     Should illegal use of shareware be considered a benefit?
>
>I'm not making a judgement here.  I'm asking a question.
>-- 
>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

It is not for you or me to worry about 'illegal use of shareware', EXCEPT
for our OWN illegal use of shareware.  Shareware, by definition, is free to
distribute, and the net does that amply well, and LEGALLY.  What people who
have access to the net, and download the Shareware, do with it, legally or
otherwise, is only between them and the author of the program (and the legal
system of whatever government they suffer under).

So, in answer to your question, 'illegal use of shareware' should not be
'considered' at all, unless YOU are the one who is illegally using it, or
YOU are the author of a package that is being illegally used.  (By 'YOU',
I don't imply 'you', Rahul, but the generic 'YOU' :-).) ('You' understand? :-)

Everett Kaser
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