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In article <E4D2A3D6790CC733.167DDA600741FF89.60E6100031798180@library-proxy.airnews.net>, look4me@airmail.net* says...
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>Dick Wisan wrote:
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>> 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.
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>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."

Right, and that's my complaint.  It shouldn't.  Given that it does,
Borland should offer to sell or release into the PD the right to use
the early editions.  

As you understood, of course, by "pass around what we have" I mean
give people copies of disks in our possession.  I wouldn't mind a
prohibition on selling the copies.

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>All you have to do is find someone who doesn't want their's anymore.

I'm on the other side of this demand.  I have copies of everything
since TP1 for DOS (I don't have any CP/M versions).  I'd love to
share them & I resent Borland's (and the law's) refusal to let me 
give what they no longer have any interest in selling.

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R. N. (Dick) Wisan  - Email: wisanr@norwich.net
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