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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!vtserf!csugrad!jaker
  2. From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Piracy
  5. Message-ID: <BxuDJH.HoF@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 03:54:53 GMT
  7. References: <BxtLp7.JnE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov16.202918.25113@ra.msstate.edu> <1e91btINNtg0@ub.d.umn.edu> <1e991mINNfre@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca>
  8. Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
  9. Lines: 24
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  11. c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Oliver Erik Seiler) writes:
  12.  
  13. >rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:
  14. >> You want a better equasion?!
  15. >> 
  16. >> Software Piracy = Shoplifting
  17.  
  18. >Actually this isn't true. Software piracy creates two copies of a a program
  19. >where only one existed before. Shoplifting doesn't create anything.
  20.  
  21. Oh, and there's still only one license, which is the only thing about purchasing
  22. software that you buy.
  23.  
  24. >Software piracy also doesn't affect shopowners in the same way as shoplifting
  25. >because the software is still on their shelves...
  26.  
  27. >\  Oliver Seiler  /\  \    /  /      _                              |||||
  28. > \               /  \  \  /  /      /o\__   <--- My dream car...    (o o)
  29. >  \             /    \  \/  /_______-O--O'_____                      \^
  30. >   \_Insomniak_/      \_c1a192@rick.cs.ubc.ca_/                     _| |_
  31. -- 
  32.  
  33. Wulf                    |"Hackers do it bit by bit -
  34. jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu | programmers do it top-down!"
  35.