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From: mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: Outdated ZDOS and CP/M
Summary: SHARE Z-100 software?
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Date: 19 Sep 90 19:56:50 GMT
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In article <12623219984.25.RDYSART@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>... writes:
  
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>	Since ZDS (Zenith Data Systems) has dropped the Z-100 line,
>Can we (US ALL ON THE NET) share Z-100 ZDS software???

This IS an INTERESTING question!  I'd sure like to know the legal
ramifications, 'cause it might simplify my wife's acquisition of
Z-100 versions of MailMerge and Speller for WordStar.  Of course,
there's still the manual problem; photocopying is easy, but I
wonder if a "business" can own a copyright when the business is
defunct.

And what about UTAH COBOL (and UTAH FORTRAN and UTAH ....) written (?)
and sold by Chuck Ellis of Ellis Computing, Inc., from 1977 up until
last March.  I've got lots of students who'd LOVE to buy copies.
(And I have a brand new manual and his latest software release !-)
--Myron.
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