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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!mcg
- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Why isn't everything PD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.094849.10128@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 09:48:49 +1200
- References: <1992Aug16.112542.22758@cs.utwente.nl>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Aug16.112542.22758@cs.utwente.nl>, kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink) writes:
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- > Otherwise ask yourself why isn't *everything* PD ? (I'll give you the
- > answer if you need it).
-
- Answer: Because dweebs like you, John, like to make a fast buck at the
- expense of the common people who don't have the expertise/time to create the
- software.
-
- You obviously didn't create software just to have your name/piccy splashed
- across the info bar.....
-
-
- Besides, the elementary routines you used in your progs (i.e. LZW compression
- in !Packdir) are obviously *NOT* created by you, more like the elementary
- routines were obtained from standard texts on Data Compression and converted,
- by you, to run on the Arc.
-
- The point is, since you're charging people to use your software, is a
- percentage going to the original Authors of the Text, from which you obtained
- the LZW routine, and/or the Original Authors of the routine itself?!?!?
-
- I'm sure there's a copyrighted text/algorithm or two being abused here?!?
- From Martin Glanvill (mcg@waikato.ac.nz)
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- ----------------****=====| A quote to make your day |======****-----------------
- It isn't just a good idea, it's the law!
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