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From: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson)
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Subject: Re: ASyncRun() doesn't work with pipe:xxx!
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Date: 10 Sep 90 22:18:30 GMT
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	d6b@psuecl.bitnet writes:

How many of Commodore's OS releases came with source? How many commercial
products come with source? Of course they *should* come with source, but
they don't. This isn't a peculiar feature of ARP. Actually, I have yet
to hear an argument for not including (for an added charge, of course)
source code with a product that makes any sense. IMHO they are just
throwing away money, because a lot of people would be willing to pay
twice the usual price (perhaps more) to get the source code too.

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	I strongly disagree with the notion that commercial software products
should come with the source. Virtually all about the program that would be
evident through the source code (ideas, methods, algorithms, concepts, etc)
are not copyrightable. The copyright laws governing software are very relaxed.
For heaven sakes - you can only copyright the dam text! Plus, the CopyRight 
people say that they presently do not hunt through previously submitted works
for a possible clone. All that someone else would have to do is perhaps just
change the wording and possibly rearrange the code a little bit - and as far
as copyrights go - it'd be theirs! 

	I take my hat off (I don't wear one, but if I did...) to persons like
Matt Dillon who do freely distribute the source. I can't and won't do that
and obviouly neither will alot of other persons. 

						Jeff