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Article #560Re: Looking for Tp3, tp4, or tp5
From: Alan M. Evans
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:00
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Dick Wisan wrote: > I is illegal, of course, but I'm coming to think it shouldn't be. If > Borland _would_ sell the old versions, the standard rule would be > perfectly fair, but they don't, and there's _nobody_ from whom you > can legally get one of those small early versions any more. If > they refuse to sell them, we ought to be free to pass around what > we have. But you _are_ free to pass around anything you have. The problem arises when computer software is involved. With software, you don't give it to someone like you would, say, a car or a book; what you do is give a copy of it, and this is where the copyright law says "no." All you have to do is find someone who doesn't want their's anymore. -- Fully 75% of my personal e-mail is unsolicited advertisement. If you are a real person and have something to say to me then remove the asterisk (*) from my reply-to address. ==> While you're at it, take a look at http://www.cauce.org/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111659,a54ef0ef7dd74c02 X-Google-Attributes: gid111659,public X-Google-Thread: 108ebd,78ff7ea8e07a287a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid108ebd,public From: "Alan M. Evans" <look4me@airmail.net*> Subject: Re: Looking for Tp3, tp4, or tp5 Date: 1997/10/08 Message-ID: <E4D2A3D6790CC733.167DDA600741FF89.60E6100031798180@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Deja-AN: 278729219 References: <3438CB48.707A@wanadoo.fr> <MPG.ea36ad12510d270989769@news.primenet.com> <61esn3$k0u@news2.zippo.com> X-Orig-Message-ID: <61g8ln$ce2@library.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Time: Wed Oct 8 10:25:43 1997 Reply-To: look4me@airmail.net* Organization: NSEC NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.borland,borland.public.turbopascal