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To: M31 who wrote (19770)	5/28/1998 4:54:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

M31, >>That's exactly right because if strict intellectual property laws had been in place, microsoft wouldn't have been able to become the predatory plagiarizer that it is today. Plagiarize, plagiarize, let no one's work, evade your eyes... The best thing that the free software movement can do is to take all of Microsoft's bread-winner software and simply "reverse-innovate" it feature by feature. Why try to be original? It just doesn't pay to innovate anymore unless you can afford to fight the wolf-pack of Microsoft lawyers. Any bets on how many people would rather have a free Windows95 clone and save $89? It would be interesting to see how the Microsoft business model could handle a free OS any better than Netscape could handle a free browser. Cheers, Norm