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- From: cf040@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Aaron Brick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: SoftAT demo Scandal?!?!?
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:08:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- I just was wondering about the SoftAT demo.
-
- I got this from sumex-aim(supposedly the authority in
- Macintosh free/shareware) and though it was really
- full-featured. I just supposed that someday it would
- disappear since it was a demo and it is sold for much $$$.
-
- Well, when I looked at the sites again (to see if the demo
- was only in a limited release)it was nowhere to be found. I
- mailed a letter to an archivist of the umich archives. He
- said that the demo was the REAL thing and had been removed.
- This is totally amazing. If you were to go to the store
- SoftAT would cost over $200. But at least from October to
- December it has been hopping along the net for anyone to
- take for free?? Of course the taking(like in my case) was
- under the pretense of a demonstration model so maybe when
- I ran into enough money(and liked the program) could
- eventually buy it.
-
- But the proliferation of this 100% working model would
- seem to me the makes of a scandal. I wonder what the
- people at Insignia are thinking. I wonder too what the
- reaction is from sumex-aim. I have heard of no official
- reactions or statements. I would expect to see something
- like Rer excuse me that demo you have of softat is not a
- demo and please erase it promptly.S I have seen no such
- message and am wondering what the XXXX is going on!
-
- What are my legalistic obligations.? What are those of
- all the different sites? What if this made it into private
- BBSes and even pressed onto shareware CD-ROMS.??! This is
- all quite mysterious and would love if someone could
- explain to me the answers of my questions and any other
- greater implications of the case of the SoftAT demo that wasnUt.
-
- Thanks,
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- Jeff
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