Re: --- Copying Pac-Man ---

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From: Sean Casey
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1985 07:37

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In article <987@vax2.fluke.UUCP> kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>If you copied pac man and gave it away, they can still sue you and sometimes
>they do.  There are various precedents in the copyright laws where people
>were fined substantial (c 10,000 dollar) amounts for photocopying literary
>works and posting the copies on bulletin boards.  (Watch out Dave Berry
>posters...)  I am not sure just what has happened in the software world yet.

I'm not talking about photocopying or otherwise ripping off a legitimate
copy.  I'm talking about writing a program from scratch that behaves almost
exactly like a copyrighted program and then placing my program in the public
domain.  Like if I wrote an MSDOS that was 100% compatable and then said
hey world you can have it for free.

Sean

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Subject: Re: --- Copying Pac-Man ---
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