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- On Thrusday, May 19th, 1983 I received in the mail a package, containing
- three floppy disks, and the following note:
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- "The included code is all public domain. Short of attempting
- to copyright it, you may do or do not do whatever you please
- with it.
- I do not anticipate further involvement with any of it.
- CrT"
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- One of the disks contained source in BDS C for a series of software tools
- such as one might find on a unix system. Also on that disk was a modem
- program. On the other two disks were the distribution for version 2.1 of
- the Citadel bulletin board system.
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- My choice as to what to do with this software was made earlier, in
- consultation with the person who uses Cynbe ru Taren as a pseudonym. We
- had proposed to submit it to the C Users' Group for general distribution,
- in the belief that this powerful tool for communication among people
- should be shared as widely as possible.
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- The Citadel bulletin board system has been running in Seattle since late
- 1981, and continuously for the last year. Recently, test versions of the
- program have run in Colorado and Pennsylvania. It has been well used,
- and has been highly praised and soundly damned, and all for good reason.
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- CrT has apparently withdrawn completely from activity with electronic
- bulletin boards, and I have drastically curtailed my involvement with
- them. I can speak only for myself, but I suspect I speak also for CrT
- when I say that it was the power of this tool that drove me away.
- Misused, it is capable of great harm. Yet is has the potential to help
- people communicate, and cooperate with each other. And this is a time
- when we need to communicate and cooperate with each other. Please use
- this program with care.
-
- For the record, to the best of my knowledge, which is extensive, this
- software is entirely in the public domain. Software from other authors
- is credited in situ.
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- David Mitchell
- 1161 Grow Ave. NW
- Winslow, WA 98110
- USA
- system has been running in Seattle since late
- 1981, and continuo