🚀 go-pugleaf

 dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:
>There is a big difference between a copyright owner sending out legal copies
>of their work and a random person sending out illegal copies of that same
>work.  But if Lotus 123 was posted to Usenet by it's copyright owners, even
>with a "shareware license", I would consider the copy I received to be mine;
>free and clear.

Okey doke, then, we'll hold off on the idea of whether or not you should abide
by a shareware agreement.  For a while, we'll even believe that you can hold
to your idea of ethics.  Now, please tell me how you would prove that the
shareware is posted by the legitimate copyright holder?  Let's presume that
until you prove that a person is the legitimate copyright holder, you wouldn't
infringe on the wishes of the real intellectual property owner by using that
shareware against their wishes.

Now, tell me what shareware author would knowingly post their software to
UseNet with an attitude such as yours rampant?  None I can think of.  That
would mean that all the shareware on the net was posted by somebody else,
and that you won't use it.

Good.  Glad we got that settled.



-- 
Ross M. Greenberg, Technology Editor, UNIX Today!   greenber@utoday.UUCP
             594 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10016
 Voice:(212)-889-6431 BIX: greenber  MCI: greenber   CIS: 72461,3212
  To subscribe, send mail to circ@utoday.UUCP with "Subject: Request"