From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 08:59:46 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: No Subject
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Anonymous says:
> 
> Perry almost wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, people who want to use the law to restrict distribution of
> > their software are extremely foolish. Your code is out there
> > it WILL be copied. Forever. You can't help it. If you don't want
> > people to use your software, don't write it.

Of course, Perry didn't write that, and the person reading his
messages obviously had an extremely weak understanding of what Perry
had suggested in his messages (which was that if you are giving
something away for free to all comers it is hard to argue economic
damages have occured in "unauthorized" distribution), so it makes
sense that the person replying would be too embarassed to use his own
name.

Perry