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- From: Paul Boos <pboos@sysplan.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Blue Ribbon's B&P Pro
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:30:21 -0700
- Organization: CC University of Hohenheim (not responsible for contents)
- Message-ID: <316D4FBD.640B@sysplan.com>
- References: <NEWTNews.828176709.11817.mikicic@mikicic.mcs.net> <4jntlj$893@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4kbdi3$og7@otis.netspace.net.au>
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- pyrus@netspace.net.au wrote:
- >
- > borton@students.uiuc.edu (borton scott andrew) wrote:
- >
- > >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?
- >
-
- I wouldn't mind knowing about them either as well as Patchmeister...
-
- [...stuff omitted...]
- >
- > >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.
-
- Does that mean that if you download it and then end your subscription the
- license is no longer valid? What if you the subscriber no longer needed
- your license (you stopped making music for example) and you decided to
- give it to your friend who could use it. Does he now have to join
- Compuserve? This a weird way to handout licenses...either make it
- freeware or don't... I would have personally handed it over to one of
- Blue Ribbon's programmers and said, here do whatever you want with it, we
- won't support it. He probably would have treated it as shareware...
-
- >
- > >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.
-
- Except MS' legal power... (I wouldn't want a law suit from them.)
- :-(
-
- >
- > >--scott
- > [... stuff omitted...]
-
- Does anyone know whether it is legal for a friend that has a subscription
- to give you a copy if you don't turn around and redistribute it?
-
- Paul Boos
-