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- From: cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 23:18:52 EST
- Organization: EnigamI, Inc., Nashua, NH
- Message-ID: <0105011F.977ar3@dragon.enigami.mv.com>
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- In article <D88-JWA.92Jul20002831@dront.nada.kth.se> (comp.sys.mac.apps), d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
-
- >
- >If I opened up my Sony Whatever and made a copy of it
- >with my own tools for my own amusement, would that be
- >theft from Sony ?
-
- YES. The Sony XXX-man products didn't just magically pop out of a
- box of cracker-jacks. Somebody designed the things, somebody worked
- hard to create them. Some engineers probably spend many long hours
- trying to figure out what was necessary, and how to fit it all into
- a smaller case and use less power, while still providing the same
- or better quality.
-
- Once the product is built, it is much easier to make a copy than it
- is to develop it from scratch. There is a level of work, of thought
- that had to go into creation of the original. That level or work
- is not going into the copy. The person making the copy is getting
- the benefit of that effort without paying for it.
-
- +C
-
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- Cory Kempf EnigamI, Inc.
- cory@enigami.mv.com ...!decvax!enigami!cory
- Annon: wi.5036@wizvax.methuen.ma.us
-
- "F' cryin' out loud, it's *your* life; shouldn't you at least examine
- your lifestyle values to see if they are really what *you* want."
- --Keith Lim
-