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From: gordon@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk (Simon Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal and wrongful postings
Message-ID: <238@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 04:57:28 EST
Article-I.D.: sage.238
Posted: Mon Dec  8 04:57:28 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Dec-86 04:11:11 EST
References: <1407@lsuc.UUCP> <1850@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon)
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Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK.
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In article <1850@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
>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

They can't realy do much now, because a great many people got this game
thinking it was in the PD. I got my copy from a freind who visited a freind
of his in America (Im in England). The program doesn't include any
copywrite notice so how were we to know.

The problem gets even worse when stuff is made PD in some countries,
and not in others.

Simon gordon@sage reading university