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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NoiseTracker on GEnie
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.195953.3522@cs.umu.se>
Date: 18 Oct 90 19:59:53 GMT
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In article <3388@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU (Usenet Account) writes:
>
>|From: n074ev@tamuts.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton)
>|Path: tamuts!n074ev
>
>|In ABSOLUTE truth, no one would have had Noisetracker, if someone had not
>|stolen SoundTracker from Karsten Obarski back in 86 or so...   Some people
>|heard that he had made a music maker and broke in to his house, stoll all
>|of his disks, then mailed them all back, minus SoundTracker 1.0. (A really
>|crap program by todays standards, but look what has mutated from it!) 
>|By the way, Mahoney and Kactus DID get permission to publish NoiseTracker
>|from Karsten, since he was the guy who originated the idea!  I think mabey
>|they might have given him some money as well!
>
>So, noisetracker IS legal then? Hmmm..? Is this first hand knowledge or
>more rumors? If this is just hear-say, then it's no better than the stuff
>people have been spouting that 'noisetracker is pirated'.
>

This is what I was told by Kaktus at the easter conference in Gothenburg.

Jorgen

>I just want to know the facts about Noisetracker and Soundtracker. There
>has been so much crap floating around about these programs. 
>
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