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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Switcher 2.0 Posting
Message-ID: <1164@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 12:11:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 12:11:56 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 07:25:47 EST
References: <172@analog.UUCP> <433@utai.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: 

In article <433@utai.UUCP> perelgut@utai.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) writes:
>As far as I can tell, a posting to Compuserve is a posting to public domain
>and reposting to other groups or giving away software is OK.  About the only
>rights the authors would maintain are the right to have their name associated
>with it, and the right to prevent anyone else from making money from their
>product.
>
>I for one am quite pleased that Apple is being open and posting useful tools
>to the various networks, and I suggest that the practice is a valid one.

By that theory a record distributed to a radio station is then public domain.
It's interesting that you like Apple's policy of electronic distribution
and reward that policy by refusing to honor their limitations on the
distribution, thus encouraging them to stop that method of distribution.
-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 (408) 749-5806
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