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From: balzer@frambo.enet.dec.com (Christian Balzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Anybody in germany
Summary: Hand me that bazooka, will'ya?
Keywords: Scum, PD Piracy, anger.
Message-ID: <3661@shlump.dec.com>
Date: 21 Jul 89 16:43:14 GMT
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In article <8907191837.AA05638@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes...
>
>	Anybody who lives in Germany,
> 
>	Please spread the word that the following PD distributor:
> 
>	Stephen Ossowski
>	Veronikastr. 33, 4300 Essen 1
>	West Germany
>
[is selling DME for DM 30, etc...]

No need to spread the word Matt, everbody capable of opening a German Amiga 
magazine and reading knows for some time now what piece of scum Mr. Ossowski
is. 
But be asured, he's not alone and not even the worst, although the largest
commercial PD distributor.

Anybody remembers my "PD Piracy" thread some months ago???

Some suckers are making BIG bucks with PD/FreeWare/ShareWare over here.

Mr Ossowski even modified some Fish disks that contained programs with notices
that explictly forbid distribution by him, so that these notices where either
erased or the whole program was gone.

But fear not, there is major movement with the aid of a large German Amiga
magazine underway to close down operations like those of Mr. Ossowski.

I hereby ask ALL authors of PD/FreeWare/ShareWare to send me Email regarding
their views on this topic and proposed actions vs. such individuals.
If you're interested in legal actions, etc...

Furious,

- <CB>
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