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Article #16563illegal Disk Ranger
From: matthews
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1987 02:41
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1987 02:41
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I have just been informed that Disk Ranger, which I have distributed as
freeware, is in fact a commercial program published by Mainstay.
Please help me publicize the existence of this illegal version. I very much
want to minimize the number of other people who will be humiliated as I have
been.
Because of my mistake, the illegal version was archived in the Info-Mac
directory about a week ago, as UTILITY-DISK-RANGER-21.HQX. Its "About..."
dialog box reads:
FREEWARE
This is a disk cataloging/label printing
program. If you like it, please give it to
all of your friends!
Disk Ranger is a very fine program, worth every bit of the asking price.
I hope people will not let the fact that it was associated with this criminal
act cause them to turn away from it as if it were somehow tainted. That
would be yet another injustice to the innocent author and publisher. My
sincerest apologies to them. To those who may have propagated my mistake
in the honest belief that Disk Ranger was public-domain, all of the blame
for your actions is mine.
- Dave Matthews
matthews@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
matthews@crnlthry.bitnet
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