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From: caf@omen.com (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Subject: Re: Pre-announcing Kermit for Windows 95
Organization: Omen Technology INC
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 07:10:45 GMT
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In article <42cflm$15a@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>In article <JRS.95Sep3025353@world.std.com>,
>Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> wrote:
>> I suppose it's obvious but I assume that source will not be available
>> for Kermit for Windows 95?
>>
>Some parts will, some parts won't. The parts that won't were all done
>here, at our own expense -- and that's money that must be recouped.
>
>This is not from a desire to be secretive, but rather because historically
>code from our software has been incorporated into hundreds of commercial
>and shareware programs, most often without permission. If the new Windows
>95 code is of any value, and we believe it is, the same thing would happen
>if we made it public. Our project was not established for that purpose.
Frank, which of these hundreds of commercial and shareware
programs have incorporated your Kermit source code in violation
of Columbia's Copyright? According to your Kermit News #5 none of
the other comms programs had a decent Kermit implementation.
Have hundreds of authors filched your code since then???
--
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX caf@omen.COM www.omen.com
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, GSZ and DSZ
TeleGodzilla BBS: 503-621-3746 FTP: ftp.cs.pdx.edu pub/zmodem