Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: New Communicational Morality (piracy)
Keywords: software, copyright, society, piracy, sleeze
Message-ID: <3112@looking.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 89 03:25:08 GMT
References: <754@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <3687@ficc.uu.net> <3093@looking.UUCP> <1231@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <1231@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>For those of you are uncomfortable with the idea of rights,
>remember this: protecting intellectual property seems be to the
>most effective way to dramatically increase the amount of it.

Not just the amount of it, but the distribution of it as well.  What
program is more widely distributed, Lotus 1-2-3 or PC-Calc, the
shareware spreadsheet?

In fact, almost all the world's most widely used and distributed software
packages are commercial, protected packages.  It is the packages with
"free" distribution that are the most severely limited in distribution.

When I hear people preaching that making all information free will increase
the flow of useful information, I don't know whether to shudder or laugh.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473