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Re: PC ROM copying

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From: mikey
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1986 14:26
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> I heard a story about a repair agency for a particular brand of
> microphone made overseas.  When someone came in with a broken
> microphone for repair, they would check the serial number against
> the list of serial numbers of microphones they knew to be legally
> imported.  If it didn't match the list, the customer would never
> get it back.  Moreover, they would deny that the customer ever
> brought it in for repair in the first place, or that any such microphone
> ever existed.

Give me a break!  This is commonly called THEFT!  Anyone stupid enough to fall
for this line of crap deserves what they get.  Doesn't anyone get a receipt for
stuff they give up?  If they deny it as missing, then they owe you another one.
Are people this stupid?  Or are people just mindless sheep?  Maybe stupidity
is the reason the software industry is in the shape it's in.  Maybe W.C. Fields
line should read, 'You can't cheat an honest man, unless he's that F*CKING 
stupid!"
				Mike Yetsko 
				trsvax!techsup!bbimg!mikey
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Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
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