Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmdeo!adspdk!hclausen From: hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NoiseTracker V2.0 out! Message-ID: Date: 10 Aug 90 03:36:03 GMT References: <10129@bula.se> Lines: 42 >In article <10129@bula.se> bjornk@bula.se (Bjorn Knutsson) writes: >[Stuff about sending out 20 copies of NoiseTracker deleted] >Well, I can agree that you may not be sure that this is the case, but >you HAVE been told, and you have obviously not stopped distributing >copies yet. Now, that makes you a pirate in my book. Pirates are people that copy illegal programs systematically and in large quantities. Distributing a nice program that seems to be PD, but may or not be, is certainly not piracy. He's a nice guy, it seems, perhaps a bit naive :-) >What I'd like to know is: If I steal Marco's "ATalk III", hack it up a >little and call it "MasterATalk", does this make it OK for me to >distribute for free? Is that OK with you Marco? (Hey! You know I >wouldn't pull a stunt like that, put that shotgun away... :-) Comparing the NT / ST heritage to ATalk III is WAY out of porpotions. ATalk is way above ST with respect to completeness, stability, compatibility, support - and size! I'm not advocating reverse engineering, hacking, Asm or piracy. Just attempting to speak words of common sense. Most people cheat in little ways in the dark. Software, taxes, lying, politics, etc. Of course, someone might step up and say "I'm truely an Angel" :-] Disclaimer: I never even saw either SoundTracker or NoiseTracker! Exclaimer: I *hate* heated discussions. Flames by mail, please. Have a nice (cool) day -Henrik PS Bjorn, did you happen to read the netiquette lately? No? -- | Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data (Fido: 2:230/22.33) | | ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen | \__"Do not accept the heart that is the slave to reason" - Qawwali trad__/