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From: saify@cbnewsl.att.com (saify.lanewala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
Summary: Great Job
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.142034.20634@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 8 Jun 90 14:20:34 GMT
References: <113@fishpond.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 51

In article <113@fishpond.UUCP>, fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
> This note is to inform the net that the following disks are being
> recalled and should not be distributed until replacement disks are
> available:
> 
> 	173, 221, 230, 238, 305, 324
> 
> Each of these disks contains a tetris clone which Spectrum Holobyte
> believes to be infringement on their commercial product "Tetris".
> 
[ section of letter from P. Adam deleted ]
> 
> Again, thank you for your support in the matter.  You are a good person
> for the Amiga community and we wish you continued success.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Phillip G. Adam
> President
> 
> -Fred
> -- 
> # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284,  USA
> # 1-602-491-0048               asuvax!mcdphx!fishpond!fnf

I want to take this opportunity to thank Fred Fish for being, if you will,
the keeper of the Amiga conscience.  If anything, actions of this type,
i.e., voluntarily removing suspect software from public/shareware libraries
legitimizes the shareware concept.

I'll open myself up for flames and say that I feel that BBSes are much
more vulnerable to the distribution of pirated software and/or software
infringing on copyrights than other types software archive sources, such
as the Fred Fish collection, xanth, uunet etc.  Perhaps there is a way
in which we can attempt to control the dissemination of such problem
software if everyone who maintains an archive were to clear any software
submissions through the ASP.

I'm sure such an approach would be a pain for quite a few of us, but
in the long run, it would help more than hinder the growth of the
software industry.  Speaking for myself, I would be spend less time
worrying about my applications being pirated and more time developing
a professional product if I had confidence that there were more
people with integrity out there than without.

Any thoughts?

Please, if you must, flame me by e-mail -- don't waste bandwidth.

Saify Lanewala
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