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From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee)
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Subject: Re: PUBLIC LETTER: Advanced MINIX and Copyrights
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Date: 21 May 91 18:04:18 GMT
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In article <9105201062@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes:
>
>4.  Because of (3), we only shipped the stuff to people who could show
>    proof of owning a legal copy of MINIX.  I am sorry to say that I
>    had to disappoint lots of people because of this- many of us use
>    some kind of "third" copy, which is not good enough for NLMUG...
>
>Well now.  People are still sending me tuns of "how can I get it?"
>messages.  By now, it shall be clear, that I cannot send ANYTHING to
>ANYONE until the mess with Prentice Hall is cleared up.  After that,
>it is up to them to decide whether NLMUG Advanced MINIX is going to
>die or not.  I hope not, but fear different...

Ok, why not take the route taken by Bruce Culbertson for the pc532
port and require that people send you their original boot disk before
you send them NLMUG Advanced MINIX?  You can return the boot disk
with your distribution.  That way, PH is happy- only those who have
bought MINIX gets it and the world is happy since Advanced MINIX gets
distributed.


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