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- From: borton@students.uiuc.edu (borton scott andrew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Blue Ribbon's B&P Pro
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 06:38:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- mikicic@mcs.com wrote:
-
- : I have heard that MicroSoft bought out Blue Ribbon and then shut them down. =(
- : Can anyone confirm this?
- :
- : Also, I heard that Bars & Pipes Pro went "freeware" and can be downloaded from
- : Compuserve. What about all the plugins?
-
- : Can anyone tell me where, besides Compuserve, I can download B&P? Any FTP
- : Sites or Web Pages? Can Compuserve's archives be reached through the internet
- : without being a client?
-
- Bars & Pipes Pro and SuperJam! are both available on CompuServe...but
- Blue Ribbon/Microsoft have explicitly stated that they are _free only for
- CompuServe subscribers_. You cannot access CompuServe's archives without
- being a CompuServe subscriber.
-
- Of course, there is no way to enforce this. I'm a CompuServe subscriber,
- so I have legal copies, but there's nothing preventing someone from
- putting these programs on their ftp site.
-
- --scott
-
- P.S. Microsoft did not "shut Blue Ribbon down"... Blue Ribbon merely does
- not support the Amiga any more.
-
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