stanly@unmvax.UUCP (03/30/85)
Hello, In all the articles that I have been reading, one think keeps being repeated and repeated. Software stealing is as bad as robbing a bank or holding up a 7-11 except on a smaller scale. Piracy is a bad term for copying diskettes. When you steal a program, you are making a copy of it and not taking from the other person. You are not stealing it or pirating it but you are COPYING it. Better lets call it: Software stealing is as bad as copying tapes or records. Another thing is that not all copying is for stealing purposes. Some people back up software with "the great pirate programs". Last week in the local apple computer club, a new rule was created. No copying is allowed in the club. Anybody caught copying software will have all the software they have on them checked to see if it is a copy and not the real thing. If it is a copy, IT WILL BE ERASED! Two days later somebody went into my backpack and took most of my diskettes. True, some of them were copys but most were the real thing. If you are not allowed to backup your disks, how are you to protect yourself? Most copying is for pirating purposes so that if somebody said, " I am backing up this stuff " , what are you supposed to think? The thief knew you could not get me to copy it for him so he stole it. Send me mail . . . I L O V E mail Josh Siegel {convex,ucbvax,gatech,csu-cs,anl-mcs,lanl-a}!unmvax!unm-cvax!josh -- Stanly Steinberg Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 uucp: {anl-mcs,convex,csu-cs,gatech,lanl,ogcvax,pur-ee,ucbvax}!unmvax!stanly ARPA: unmvax!stanly@lanl.arpa