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From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
Keywords: CDROM  FredFish  Amiga
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.144544.17517@uncecs.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 14:45:44 GMT
References: <455@hal.CSS.GOV>
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <455@hal.CSS.GOV> stevem@hal.CSS.GOV (Steve Masters) writes:
>On p.43 of the October AmigaWorld is an ad from Xetec for an Amiga CD-ROM system.
>As part of the ad, they say they will include with the system a CD-ROM with the
>Fred Fish library through #360.

Interesting!  I wonder how they deal with the copyright restrictions
on some of the pieces in the Fish library which can only be destributed
by Fred Fish.  Perhaps by including the entire library (to date) they
can get away with it.  We should be glad, I suppose, that most of the
people submitting software to Mr. Fish's library don't have schools
of piranha lawyers lurking in shallow pools waiting to sturr up 
some trouble over whether this CD-ROM thing constitutes a profit-making
entity or whether it is still "distribution by Fred Fish" as spelled out
in several item's distribution restrictions.

For the record, all my stuff on the Fish Disks is for free distribution.
I'm thinking of a new classification: Forced Distribution-- all users
will be _required_ to at least try to give at least one copy to
someone else, assuming that the recipient agrees to these terms.  There
will be an exemption for those computer nerds who's only friend is
their Amiga.

(Shudders on the first paragraph, smileys on the second.)

>Steve Masters    stevem@hal.CSS.GOV
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