Re: Archiving Apple ][e discs

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Roy (Exegete) replied:

>Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:44:30 -0500, Martin Doherty
>>><martin.doherty@undisclosed.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>OK no need to answer that last question, there is a thread over in 
>>>>comp.emulators.apple2 which addressed it thoroughly. One line summary: 
>>>>copyright exists, but not defended due to negligible commercial value)
>>>
>>>You might want to check up on that.  There are some people that
>>>believe that and continue to tell everyone that but the last time I
>>>look at US copyright law, I don't recall seeing anything about
>>>commercial or monetary value.
>> 
>> 
>> The illegality of infringing does not depend on the value, only
>> the legal liability of the infringer does.  And, of course, the
>> liklihood that anyone cares depends on the value involved.
>> 
>> Simple "illegality" is an issue anytime you walk across the
>> street in the middle of a block, so I doubt that most people
>> are much concerned about that.
>> 
>> Whether something is illegal or not has little bearing on
>> whether it is immoral or not, right-wing fundamentalists to
>> the contrary.
>
>While I'm no longer a fundamentalist, I'm still right wing. (Some 
>uninformed people might call me a fundie, but the shoe doesn't fit 
>anymore - oh, Attila the Hun was a wimp  ;-)
>
>I dust that off solely to point out that even RWFs believe that 
>sometimes the moral thing to do is disobey the laws of men.
>
>:-)

Very cool, Roy!

I wish that everybody would figure out that enshrining their own
moral code in the laws of the land is not a good idea.

<theology>
Not only does it make civil criminals out of people who disagree,
it also makes compliance with the relevant moral code by believers
into a mere act of civil compliance rather than submission to divine will--
a situation described by some theologians as idolatrous.
</theology>

-michael

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