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From: ludde@adder.bula.se (Erik Lundevall)
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Subject: Re:  NoiseTracker V2.0 out!
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Date: 12 Aug 90 23:50:17 GMT
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In article <9008120043.AA03382@jade.berkeley.edu> S36666WB@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Brian Wright) writes:
>It can't what?  Be released as a commercial product?   If NT 2.0 is a BETA
>of a commercial release then who is releasing it?  Is the original author of
>The Ultimate Soundtracker releasing it?  If not then it can't be released
>as commercial anything to anybody according to what you have just said.
>That's to bad too.  From what I have seen of Soundtracker and NoiseTracker
>they would make excellent products.

I have heard that the authors of NoiseTracker 2.0 have come to an agreement 
with the original author & distributor of SoundTracker, which is supposed to
distribute NoiseTracker.


>I don't condone what the hackers did but the results of their efforts (no
>matter how immoral) are here.  It would be nice to see the original author of
>The Ultimate Soundtracker allow these programs at least the right to survive
>in PD form (or even shareware with donations given to the original author).
    *** stuff deleted ***
>into PD or shareware.  Perhaps we should support MED 2.0 instead.  That
>piece of software has NO controversy associated with it and has the source code
>included.  It's also on a Fred Fish disk.  It supports MIDI as well.

I have seen two SoundTracker/NoiseTracker-like programs which are not based on any 
SoundTracker code and are freely distributable; MED and ComPositive. 
And they are nice multitasking programs as opposed to SoundTracker/NoiseTracker.
It seems a better idea to support these programs than hoping that a commercial
program and its hacked versions will become legal and freely distributable. 


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