Subject: Re: Avast!  Be there still pirates in these here waters?
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<< One item to note:
    It is one thing to use something long forgotten and swept under the
rug.

    It is another to take something in a store on display, even if the
item is
hidden behind other boxes or even in a back room collecting dust.  If
the
latter is the case then asking the store would be appropriate (if he can
be found).

    It is also, a totally different thing when someone is in the process
of
building such an item to take it from the maker without asking.  This
being the
most heinous and unforgivable. >>


Now THOSE are good analogies.  They seem to sum up what I hoped would come out
of this thread.  A statement etiquette that was practical and fair to
Programmers, Users, and Pirates, that recognizes and respects intellectual
property, and the desire to enjoy Apple II computing, yet doesn't turn a blind
eye to the reality that we live in.

-- Jay Edwards