Re: What does free mean.

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From: Sean Casey
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 16:40

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frk@mtxinu.COM (Frank Korzeniewski) writes:

|Listen carefully.  The source is available through anonymous ftp.  You are
|on your honor not to steal it.  When you sign and mail the license you
|can access the source, without waiting for them to recieve and process it.
|If you have a problem with this procedure, don't take it up with me.


Making something available via anonymous FTP is (arguably) distributing
it to the public. It's like a counter set up outside a store with
a sign "Free: Take One". That's why they call it anonymous FTP, you
know, because you are placing something up for grabs by anonymous
people.

Anything you legally own and distribute to the public is not "theft" if
they decide to keep it.

Sean
-- 
***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
***  "Well, heck's farr, Jim, it gives mah computer sumthin' to do when
***  Ah'm out brandin' capacitors." -DM

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Subject: Re: What does free mean.
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