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Re: Piracy and cypherpunks

To: Rabid Wombat <[email protected]>, Steve Schear <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Piracy and cypherpunks
From: Petro <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:22:13 -0500
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At 11:44 PM -0500 11/19/98, Rabid Wombat wrote:
>The best defence for the programmer is to make the software so buggy,
>complex, and poorly documented that enough revenue is obtained through
>support contracts and fees, supplemental documentation, training courses,
>and the like to cover the potential losses to piracy. NT comes to mind. ;)

	A lot of software products seem to fit that description these days.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather na�ve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html

Petro::E-Commerce Adminstrator::Playboy Ent. Inc.::[email protected]

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- Re: Piracy and cypherpunks
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- Re: Piracy and cypherpunks
  - From: Rabid Wombat <[email protected]>

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