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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Sale of Redristributable Software
Message-ID: <321@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 16:21:01 EST
Article-I.D.: pttesac.321
Posted: Mon Nov  3 16:21:01 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Nov-86 06:28:51 EST
References: <212@sas.UUCP>
Reply-To: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (-Root Admin-)
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, San Francisco
Lines: 43
Keywords: FHack, Freely Redristributable

In article <212@sas.UUCP> toebes@sas.UUCP (John Toebes) writes:
>Warning: Controversial Subject matter.
>
>First a little background:
>I opened up the latest issue of AmigaWorld to find an advertisement for
>a company in CA advertising HACK for sale.  Claiming to be 'The Public Domain
>Connection', they list 2 disks containing Hack:
>001: Hack. Incredible graphics version.
>002: Hack. Text version, for Connoisseurs.
>
[stuff]
>They even advertised my work without consulting me.  (If it isn't so
>good, then why did they choose it as the feature programs?)
>
>This company is not offering anything that isn't available elsewhere.  In
>fact, they are making the program LESS available by splitting it up. (A
>price tag of $18.00 for what normally is $6 or $7)
>

"They" is one person, Andrew Klineman (spelling may not be correct).
After reading John's article I decided to call this company and
complain.  It seems to be run by one person, a senior at Berkeley.
He assured me that he is not distributing Hack because John had
objected and because his version wasn't current.

I don't know this guy, but he sounded sincere in that he doesn't
want to take anyone else's deserved profits.  He'd like to distribute
shareware and include notices showing to whom contributions should be
sent.

He didn't have access to USENET, so I tried to send John's
article to his Amiga, but his modem was apparently not on
auto answer and I didn't have the time to wait for him to
look up new option settings.

Anyway, he said he'd call John, so I hope John will straighten Andrew
out on what he can and cannot distribute for profit, and under what
conditions.

After John's plea I had expected that this guy would have been
deluged with complaints.  I am quite dissapointed that I was the
only one who had complained.  We ought to stick together and help
each other on matters like this!