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Article #43365Re: Copyrights and Copywrongs
From: carlboll
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1993 22:20
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1993 22:20
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Allen,
You make an excellent point about "orphanware". I refuse to buy it for
just that reason. No matter how much I would like to have a copy of a program
I won't resort to that route. Just for everyones information, I just obtained
the rights from Marty Goodman to distribute Graphicom through the Glenside
Color Computer Club. The program itself is (according to Marty) released to
the Public Domain however the documentation is copyrighted and Marty did not,
to my knowledge, decide to make that public domain although he did give the
Glenside Club permission to make and distribute copies to members (he is a
member himself).
Carl
P. S. Most likely Microsoft has maintained the copyrights themselves and sold
Tandy a license. You'll notice that GW Basic is VERY similar to disk basic.
Right down to having MOTOR ON and MOTOR OFF commands.
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