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- From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <wingo-100193165044@kip2-6.apple.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 00:53:58 GMT
- References: <freek.726615644@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
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- In article <freek.726615644@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>, freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek
- Wiedijk) wrote:
- >
- > I would prefer a world in which there were no intellectual
- > property laws. I don't think it is unethical to copy
- > something. At least, not when the copying doesn't disturb
- > the use of the original item.
- >
- > My reasons for this are the following:
- > [stuff deleted]
- > 4. The highest grade information that I know is `science'.
- > Try to imagine a world in which you had to _pay_ for each
- > scientific article that you need to look at for your
- > research or if you wanted to build on the results from
- > such an article. In what state would science be in such a
- > world. In other words: I prefer the way information is
- > handled in science to the way it's handled in the software
- > industry.
-
- Of course, scientists have to eat and make house payments as well. Most
- funding of pure science comes directly ore indirectly from the government.
- Are you suggesting that the govt should subsidize all software development
- as well?
-
- Just asking...
-
- -tony
-
- >>usual disclaimer<<
-