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From: zseelunnon@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Your articles sold for cash.
Message-ID: <13139.26b61707@qut.edu.au>
Date: 31 Jul 90 23:40:55 GMT
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In article <26259@usc.edu>, kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
> I don't mind if anybody uses my postings for personal use, and I also
> don't mind if they use them in some business, as long as they are not
> directly profiting from my work.  (That is - if they just use the Minix
> operating system to do other work, this is just fine.)  I am really
> upset that somebody would have the gall to re-sell my postings and
> profit from them.
> 
> Well, we can (and should) let Prentice Hall know about this.  Second, I
> will start to put a notice on my postings that they cannot be sold or
> re-sold by any party, any time, or any place.
> 
> In the United States, a person holds a copyright on any material he
> writes, whether or not he registers that material with the copyright
> office, and this copyright protects him against others profiting from
> his work.  I can't believe that the laws in Great Britain are very much
> different.
> 
> If this company continues, then I suppose that we could restrict
> distribution of our articles, so that they only go to North America,
> South America, Asia, Africa, and the continent.  Perhaps this would piss
> off the Brits enough that they would take legal action against this
> company in Great Britain.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> (c) Copyright Kenneth J. Hendrickson, 1990
> No part of this article may be sold, or printed in a publication
> which is sold, without the written permission of the author.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6      kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh

I see no reason that a centre set up for minix distribution cannot quite
happily resell copies of minix bought through PH. !!!! This is almost
certainly what the minix centre does. After all minix here can be bought
through the UNI bookshop, is that really any difference. Ther is also nothing
really to stop them from distributing information posted on the net for the 
price of the disk. I feel usenet is essentially a public access forum....
this is no different from you FORWARDING articles to your mate at the next 
terminal ????


          oooh there will be flames :-)

                    BOB
	ZSEELUNNON@qut.edu.au