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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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Subject: Re: HeapFixer wanted - I'm crashing too often
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Date: 31 Oct 90 18:38:50 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.194137.10960@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@scotty (Scott Howard) writes:
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>Heapfixer is given by CE Software as a reward for buying their products.
>It is NOT public domain, nor is it freely distributable.

Hey, I'm kinda confused on this one.

Yes, I've seen the version that they distribute with their products. It has a
copyright notice in the about box.

HOWEVER!

Recently, I received a new hard drive from Alliance Peripheral Systems that
came with a 12Mbyte stuffit archive of freeware/shareware/etc. software in it
supposedly taken from the BMUG archives. In this archive I discovered
(surprise, surpise :-) a copy of Heapfixer. Same name, same company, same icon.
Same about box ALMOST. The company name was there but no notice about limited
distribution.

Now I know how easy doing this would be with a copy of resedit, but isn't the
archives at BMUG moderated? It seems very odd that such a thing might happen.
But then again, do companies sometimes allow products like this be distributed
through special areas (kinda like the old Adobe font bitmap issues. They are
free but only certain places are allowed to distribute them).

If anyone knows anything about this, I'd be interested in finding out whether
this copy that I have has been bootlegged somewhere along the line or in fact
is a specially authorized version distributed by CE.

(Hmm.., maybe there was some liturature about this that got missed when APS put
the archive together)


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