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On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:07:55 GMT, Code Monkey UK <codemonkey_uk@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2 Oct 1998 18:13:27 GMT, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>
>>In <6nkoxaAMrKF2EwM4@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>>MS users are being FORCED to upgrade to newer software by the company's
>>>dishonest practices and the company's practice of making new file
>>>formats incompatible with older versions of the same application.
>>
>>Forced? dishonest? They are simply using the monopoly rights which you
>>have staunchly advocated that they should have. That is what a monopoly
>>is all about. You can force the buyer to do do what you want. It was the
>>same with shoes under the communists regimes (buy these uncomfortable
>>shoes or go barefoot-- you are perfectly free to choose).
><SNIP>
>
>And so on.
>When will you people realise that just because Microsoft are
>manipluative and dishonest it doesn't mean that ALL propriortry
>software is evil.

	It just tends to lead to situations where only
	one player is able to exploit the market instead
	of ALL players. This is bad for business.

	IP is an artificial construct meant to serve a public
	policy goal. As soon as it is obvious that that goal 
	is being thwarted, the artificial construct quite obviously
	needs to be modified.

>
>I was interested at first but now I'm sick of it.

	IP is highly artificial, self-contradictory, and contrary
	to other forms of property. That people object to it and
	it's effects should be no surprise.

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