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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST User Virus!
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Date: 3 Jun 91 07:57:52 GMT
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In article <1991May31.130524.5964@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz
(Roger Sheppard) writes:
>In article <3100@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
>> You'll also find an illegal (very!) copy of NEOchrome on there too.
>> About now you'll all be saying "Why does this guy keep going on about
>> NEOchrome?". Well the answer is I would like it to be PD officially but
>> Atari seem disinterested.
>> 
>
>I think you will find it is not a illegal copy, its a demo
>version, NEOchrome Version 0.5 

It's not version 0.5 that is on the ST User disk.
It's a disassembled/decompiled version 1.0 that has been improved, rebuilt
and called version 2.10 by a hacking group called Chaos.

That's illegal because version 1.0 is not PD and so is taking a copyrighted
program apart.

Now if NEOchrome was made completely PD by Atari then I guess there would
be no problem.

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