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- From: brayl@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Rayl)
- Subject: Re: A new perspective on 8bit piracy.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.172327.13124@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:23:27 GMT
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- Adam,
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- I follow your point about buyig an original from a friend, but I don't
- condone cpying commercial programs, even if the company "isn't around
- anymore." If the company had folded, the softwar reverts back to the
- author. A lot of comapnies that aren't in the Atari market anymore are
- still around. The best thing, would be to get the company to release
- the old commercial game into the public domain. If a company isn't
- around (ie alive), we should tr to get ahold of the author, andsee if
- he/she will release the program into the PD. Who knows who wrote
- Paperclip, for example? Wouldn't it be nice to get software out into
- the public domain, and maybe if we get lucky, source code could come with
- it, for someone like Bob Puff to make an update.
-
- That's the solution, not piracy.
-
- Pattie Rayl (Atari Interface)
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