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Article #43050Re: MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net? (Was latest version...)
From: Jordan Mattson
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 23:18
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 23:18
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Dear David - It has to do with the fact that Compuserve, Genie, and AppleLink all keep records of who have downloaded software from them and guarantee that folks see a license agreement from Apple before they download. The US Copyright office says that if you are to maintain your copyright you have to maintain control over who receives your software. I have worked in the past to see if it would be possible to make MacsBug and ResEdit available over the net and via FTP from Sumex. The folks in legal looked into and told me that to do so would make us open to losing our copyrights according to the US Copyright office. This is due to the anarachastic nature of the net, and cannot be addressed without changing the fundamental nature of the net. Jordan Mattson UUCP: jordan@apple.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. CSNET: jordan@apple.CSNET Development Tools Product Management AppleLink: Mattson1 20525 Mariani Avenue, MS 27S Cupertino, CA 95014 408-974-4601 "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!jordan From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net? (Was latest version...) Message-ID: <31668@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 25 May 89 23:18:02 GMT References: <31641@apple.Apple.COM> <1936@husc6.harvard.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24