Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!oregon!jmeissen
From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WANTED: VirtGIF
Message-ID: <511@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 30 May 90 18:31:55 GMT
References: <2830@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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In article <2830@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> kssingvo@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Singvogel) writes:
>yesterday, i've read in a newsgroup, where VirtGIF is available, via
>ftp. But today this message doesn't exist anymore on our system, or
>better: I cannot find it anymore.

I, too, had seen the message, and lacking a GIF viewer acquired VirtGIF from the
specified ftp site. When I ran the program it displayed a banner proclaiming that
it was an unregistered copy of the program, and explicitly stated that it was NOT
P.D.! I have deleted my copy, and since replaced it with HamGIF (which I assume
is P.D.).

Where I come from, public distribution of commercial products in this manner
is called piracy. Unfortunately, I kept no record of the site's address or I 
would have sent some rather pointed e-mail. If someone else on the net comes
across this or a similar posting regarding VirtGIF please let the poster know
that they are definitely not doing a good thing.

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