Re: Net piracy?

[jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L Brookes)]

In article <30fidi$bvt@crl4.crl.com>, David K. Leikam <dkl@crl.com> wrote:

>   Tempting to observe that if some of the folk hereabouts wrote code 
>they way they write messages, none of it would ever work, viz;
>
>  fprint() and fprintf() are NOT the same thing, nor are they "close 
>enough", despite their similarities. Where you need one, you shouldn't 
>use the other -- unless you're an expert and know what/why you're doing it.
>
>  Just so, theft and copyright violation are NOT the same thing, nor are 
>they "close enough".

If analogies were plants, yours would be skunkweed.

>  It's an uphill battle just getting the terms into real-world 
>definition, let alone moving on to demonstrate anything.

I can see why, if that's a typical example of your thought process.
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