Re^2: Free Software Users == dupes ?

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From: Major
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 1990 05:06

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coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:

>                               Copyright law _cannot_ legally be used
>to force someone to abrogate their rights under copyright.

[ Without prejudice. I don't actualy think that that is whats happening
  but for the sake of argument ... ]

Why not? If the law can be used to force me to pay money why can't it be
used to force me to pay software.
-- 
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                      |    and no simpler
Major                 |                          - Albert Einstein
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Subject: Re^2: Free Software Users == dupes ?
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