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From: ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chessamster 2100 patch
Message-ID: <1991May15.143801.9270@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 15 May 91 14:38:01 GMT
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In <1991May14.011224.4218@news.iastate.edu> taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>
> My opinion is that the copyright doesn't work for software.  Or at
>least the definition has been perverted.  The duration is too long for
>one thing.  Software written for a VIC-20 still has over 60 years of
>protection under copyright law.  Considering nobody is buying it, what
>is the harm in copying it?
>
> Well, I could argue until my head turned blue and popped off, but...

Yes, I agree that software for a dead machine like the VIC-20 (yes I know,
flame me, YOU still use it ;^) should be freely distributable, but only
a partial relief from copyrights in that the code should not be altered,
the authors still get credit etc. i.e. only free to copy. I can imagine
that in 50 years some of the distinguished grey old men will think back
with a moist eye to their programming efforts on that machine and then
see their software running in the museum under someone else's name!

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