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In article <NELSON.92Jan9232614@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

   Proprietary software companies call undesired software copying
   "theft".  With most theft, the way it's discovered is that the
   original item is missing.  With software "theft", the original item
   remains undamaged.  The "theft" is only discovered by finding a
   duplicate in my posession.

On a related note, there's a TV program on Public TV in the US called 'The
Computer Cronicle'. And at the beginning of the programme it is said: "It's
a federal offense to copy software." It is annoying to hear that because it
is not a federal offense to copy GNU stuff, among others. It think that the
"Software Publisher Association" (or something like that) is responsible
for that statement at the beginning a programme.

Shouldn't they say "Its a federal offense if you don't respect the
copyright licence of the software" ?
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Stephane Boucher, ing. jr.
sbo@vlsi.polymtl.ca
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