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From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Piracy
Message-ID: <2355@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 19 May 89 18:10:57 GMT
References: <8905190507.AA19164@obsolete.UUCP> <5116@charon.unm.edu>
Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <5116@charon.unm.edu> cs1552ao@charon.unm.edu.UUCP (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) writes:
>> Interesting attitude re: receiving stolen goods being ok if the recipient
>> doesn't believe the stolen goods are worth their purchase price.  Wonder if
>> that would work with cars or televisions?
>
>Probably would if you could make exact dupes of cars or televisions at little
>or no cost without damage to the original.

Software counterfeiting? :)  Looks like the real thing, but it ain't!
I wonder if this is the attitude that Lotus and Apple are taking towards
people who make clones of their interfaces.  Is the interface as inviolate as
an original painting?  I used to think that Look and Feel arguments were real
lame, but in this context it seems almost reasonable.

Dave Seah (dseah@wpi.wpi.edu)