Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Ozan Yigit
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 16:12

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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

   No, once your code has been incorporated into a commercial product,
   *that copy* becomes nonsharable.  It doesn't matter that the public
   domain version is still sharable, someone has made a copy that cannot
   be shared.

It does very much matter that the public domain version (the original) 
is still sharable, and will forever be that way, by definition, and by
law. The notion of Public Domainness does include the possibility that
some instances may be made unsharable, but of course by definition the
act of unsharing is no longer meaningful. Put it simply,  a difference
that makes no difference anywhere. Next, we'll cover the head of a pin
and the number of dancing fairies.

oz
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From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: Too Good to be True?
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