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From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Another Terminal Emulator (STOLEN SOFTWARE FLAME!)
Message-ID: <1536@orca.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 17:32:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: orca.1536
Posted: Wed May 29 17:32:33 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 00:32:46 EDT
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Reply-To: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

I'm probably not going to be the only one to notice this, but the magnitude of
the offense demands an immediate nova-strength flame.

Recently 'newton@reed (Physics Super User)' posted a program to net.sources.mac
under the title 'Another Terminal Emulator', without any further comments.
Upon xbin-ing the file to create 'VersaTerm.cran', I noticed some peculiar 
similarities with the pre-release version of Lonnie Abelbeck's VersaTerm.  
To make a long story short:

	$ strings VersaTerm.cran.rsrc | cat -t > VersaTerm.cran.strings
	$ strings VersaTerm.rsrc | cat -t > VersaTerm.strings
	$ diff VersaTerm.cran.strings VersaTerm.strings
	601,604c601,604
	< by   R.E. Crandall     
	< If you like this send $75 to:     
	< REC Inc  5445 SE 41 Portland OR 97202.
	<                                   
	---
	> by   Lonnie R. Abelbeck
	> Version 1.00  -  November 16, 1984
	> For Personal, Non-Commercial use ONLY.
	> Copyright 1984  Lonnie R. Abelbeck
	635,636d634
	< 033 
	< 133 
	$

This means that the ONLY difference between the strings in the two programs
(which strings also included any sequences of four bytes not containing a
control character in the code, a considerable fraction of the program) was that
'R.E. Crandall' has removed Lonnie Abelbeck's name and copyright notice from 
the program and replaced it with his/her own name and a request for money!
(And a garishly overpriced amount for shareware, at that!)

The degree of rapaciousness, avarice, and just plain stupidity demonstrated by
this 'R.E. Crandall' is unprecedented in all my Net experience.  This is theft
worse than any software piracy I've ever witnessed, and that's a lot of user
groups.

If you respect the fine work of Lonnie Abelbeck, who was so kind as to
distribute his beta-test version of VersaTerm free to the entire net, DO NOT 
USE 'R.E. Crandall's software.  DO NOT SEND any money.  REMEMBER THIS NAME, 
and avoid it!

Lonnie, I'd be glad to testify at the trial.  Good luck.

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!orca!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (orca!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]