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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal and wrongful postings
Message-ID: <1850@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 11:39:29 EST
Article-I.D.: alvin.1850
Posted: Thu Dec  4 11:39:29 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 10:36:59 EST
References: <1407@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
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Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: The dealer gave it to me!

In article <1407@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>
> ....  The 'BREAKOUT' desk accessory was *not* public domain.  It was
>proprietary code from Atari.  ..........

	In defense of Eric, I must say that I too had a copy of
breakout.acc, which I fully believed to be a PD product, and which
I've given away to some other people;  now this whole thing has me
worried because __ I got the acc from a local dealer, who has it in a disk
of PD software that he lets people copy __.  I obviously can't *prove*
that's how I got it, but is it an authorised copy if the dealer gave
it away?  Did Atari mean to sell it, or distribute it through dealers?
Is there a legal problem in such a case, ie. does my receiving it free
from the dealer mean I am not to give it away also (I can hardly
imagine the dealer would give it if he could sell it)?

							-ravi