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Article #23863Re: Illegal and wrongful postings
From: Simon Gordon
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1986 09:57
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1986 09:57
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In article <1850@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes: >In article <1407@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: >> >> .... The 'BREAKOUT' desk accessory was *not* public domain. It was >>proprietary code from Atari. .......... > > In defense of Eric, I must say that I too had a copy of >breakout.acc, which I fully believed to be a PD product, and which They can't realy do much now, because a great many people got this game thinking it was in the PD. I got my copy from a freind who visited a freind of his in America (Im in England). The program doesn't include any copywrite notice so how were we to know. The problem gets even worse when stuff is made PD in some countries, and not in others. Simon gordon@sage reading university
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!reading!gordon From: gordon@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk (Simon Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Illegal and wrongful postings Message-ID: <238@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 04:57:28 EST Article-I.D.: sage.238 Posted: Mon Dec 8 04:57:28 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Dec-86 04:11:11 EST References: <1407@lsuc.UUCP> <1850@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon) Distribution: world Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK. Lines: 18