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From: delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: re: RE: Piracy
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Date: 22 May 89 02:58:04 GMT
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Network Comment: to #2880 by obsolete!pro-angmar!pro-europa!samt

Re: comparing software publishers to pirates because they want to have the
right to charge what they want for what they publish even if it's shoddy
merchandise (paraphrased).

Nobody holds a gun to your head saying you have to use software that you don't
feel meets your standards.  If someone wants to sell something you think is
worthless then just do without it rather than try to rationalize stealing it.

The potential buyer's sole moral and legal recourse is to not use that which
he doesn't think is a good product.  The publisher, as the owner of the
product has every right to set the terms of the sale or non-sale as the case
may be.

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