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#Software Piracy

    31-Oct-91 16:52:47
Sb: #38930-#Software Piracy
Fm: Mike Roth 73316,1075
To: BILL LEACH 71330,2621
Once again, let me repeat that I am not concerned about legal liability. I am concerned about ethical responsibility or maybe just good taste and good citizenship. There are things that are legal that aren't right or fair. This is a system that tries to run a clean shop, with standards higher than the gutter or the lowest common denominator. A family place. I'm not required to have curtains on my windows, carpets on my floor, or nice furniture in my house. I do it because it's better than not doing it. I'm just suggesting that there might be a policy here about selling software of which one has kept an unauthorized copy. For all the fuss that people make here about a less significant policy like requiring full names, you'd think we could do something more meaningful in the software area. There's no law that requires full names, it's just a little more honest. It gives the place some class. We don't have everyone transacting business under aliases and assumed names. Would it be too painful to also say there are to be no sales of bootleg software around here? Mike