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From: S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NoiseTracker on GEnie
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Date: 5 Oct 90 02:13:16 GMT
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On 3 Oct 90 22:11:50 GMT you said:
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>Nope. Any NoiseTracker below 2.0 is pirated. 2.1 is a commercial product.
>Either way, if MED could sample, it'd make NoiseTracker look like a toy.

Well, to be technical, since no one has officially said that it is or isn't PD.
How can it be pirated?   The Author of SoundTracker wrote the first and
every other tracker is just a derivitive of it, regardless of whether or not
code was stolen from it.  To draw a parallel, Spectrum Holobyte, from what I
have heard, has called all of the Tetris like clones on Fred Fish disks
infringement on look and feel.  I have also heard that those disks containing
Tetris clones are being recalled.  If the same is true of Soundtracker, then
all tracker clones are infringement on look and feel of the original.  They
are then ALL infringement on Soundtracker including MED, SoundFX and all the
other tracker clones.  What's good for one is good for the other wouldn't
you say?  So distributing ANY type of SoundTracker clone is pirating then
right?

>
>-Joseph Hillenburg
>
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