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Article #7606Re: Patching Microsoft's Flight Simulator
From: Tim Smith
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1986 20:03
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1986 20:03
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In article <7817DMB@PSUVMA> DMB@PSUVMA.BITNET writes: > It seems to me whatever MicroSoft says, you can do anything > you want to your copy of the program, legally. From patching it > to remove copyprotection, even to sticking it through a paper > shredder. If you buy a book it's yours and you can tear out as > many pages as you like, or write on the pages in magenta crayon. But a book is not a computer program. Until someone interprets the law as saying "a computer program is the same as a book", what you can do to a book has nothing to do with what you can do to software. -- member, all HASA divisions POELOD ECBOMB -------------- ^-- Secret Satanic Message Tim Smith USENET: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim Compuserve: 72257,3706 Delphi or GEnie: mnementh
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!think!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Patching Microsoft's Flight Simulator Message-ID: <3862@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 16:03:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780c.3862 Posted: Mon Oct 13 16:03:41 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Oct-86 07:21:14 EDT References: <1860@well.UUCP> <7817DMB@PSUVMA> Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA Lines: 17