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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
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Subject: Re: Chessamster 2100 patch
Message-ID: <1991May7.032824.12059@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 03:28:24 GMT
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In article <1991May7.002909.17186@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> gfm@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George) writes:
>Utter bullsh*t, the patch itself is in no way illegal, and the author (I'd 
>assume) is only making it available so that it might help people who are fed up
>with entering words from a manual...it does get tedious...If the patch is used
>for illegal purposes, it is not the fault of the author....Although the 
>'morality' of releasing such a patch is debtable, there is no way that the 
>patch itself is illegal, For example: There are MANY commercial programs that
>strip both Disk Based Protection AND Manual based protection (For 'Archival
>Purposes' only, of course) these include: Maverick, Nib, Project D, RawCopy and>others, and these have exsisted for many years, and are not illegal at all.

Sorry George,
  Utter bullshit!  If you had bothered to download the `patch' in
question, you would know that this `patch' was indeed the main executable 
of the game!  It is not a patch to the 2100 game, but rather the patched
game.  I sent Tad some mail that it should be removed and it was.

Loren J. Rittle
--
``NewTek stated that the Toaster  *would*  *not*  be made to directly support
  the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' --- A scene at
  the recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
  worried about one little Amiga device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu