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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 17:06:21 GMT
- References: <freek.726615644@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> <1993Jan10.114839.10045@ac.dal.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan10.114839.10045@ac.dal.ca> seanmcd@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >
- > I hope that you produce something like a piece of software some day
- > and then get killed by pirates; we'll see how utopian you are then.
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- I believe you missed something. If it weren't for trade secrets,
- patents, and copyrights, writing software would be trivial; if I needed
- a fast algorithm for blitting on a Mac, for example, I'd just look it
- up.
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- It is the very fact that we `protect' such information that causes it
- to become so valuable; everyone has to invest the time to reinvent it.
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