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- From: dhoeferlin@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.d
- Subject: Re: The Twelve Bugs of Christmas is NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.194428.6362@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 19:44:28 EST
- References: <SCANNELL.92Dec16125150@bubba.ma30.bull.com><1992Dec18.225114.6274@desire.wrig <BURLEY.92Dec25143134@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <BURLEY.92Dec25143134@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, burley@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
- >
- > Then why say it? Why say "I doubt you have any copyright" or whatever?
- > Isn't that just advertising that you have knowledge of what copyright
-
- I don't think so. Saying you doubt something says that you
- are UNCERTAIN!
-
- > law is about and claiming the person doesn't own a copyright on his/her
- > own work?
- >
- >
- > I agree, I just don't see why you need to start off such a post with a claim
-
- I DID NOT START A POST OFF WITH SUCH A THING! If you will recall
- was the last sentence of my post. And I used the word 'doubt.'
- Doubt means: hesitate to believe; be undecided in opinion.
- Thus considering, I do not believe that I made any claim that
- the author did not have a copyright.
-
- I do believe that some people like to flame though!!
-
- > that a person doesn't have a copyright ("or registered trademark or anything
- > like that") on something they wrote.
- >
- >
- > James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- > Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) lpf@uunet.uu.net
-
- David Hoeferlin, dhoeferlin@desire.wright.edu
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