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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: SLIP from next.com
Message-ID: <BOB.91Feb15001422@remora.MorningStar.Com>
Date: 15 Feb 91 05:14:30 GMT
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In-Reply-To: news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU's message of 15 Feb 91 00:42:34 GMT

In article <5231@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Remote news user) writes:
   Er folks, it is really uncool to go onto a machine and grab stuff
   off unless invited to and then advertise it to the world.  It will
   make NeXT more paranoid about how it deals with distributing of
   software.  Regardless of legal issues, it is a questionable
   practice.

If something is confidential then it shouldn't be put in an anonymous
FTP area.  If something is accessible via anonymous FTP then it is
generally and reasonably assumed to be freely redistributable under
the terms of any attached copyrights.

If NeXT or any other company gets paranoid about normal and expected
behavior in a given culture, then they should spend more time learning
what's normal before trying to join that community.