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From: pedz@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Public Domain Netnews...
Message-ID: <608@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 11:44:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 11:44:32 1987
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Reply-To: pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing)
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Another point is that if BMCo takes software out of the public domain,
packages it nicely for CompputerX, and then sells it.  I could buy a
copy of it, make copies of it, and sell it at distribution cost
(assuming they did not add anything to the package).

Last, is the fact that BMCo can take a piece of software that is
copyright but free to distribute, do the exact same thing, and still
sell it since the customer will be "paying" for the disk, support, and
the glossy books.  If the original author got really provoked, the
only thing he could do is perhaps force BMCo to distribute two disks
of software.  One the customer would "pay" for and the other will come
along in the package for "free".
-- 
Perry Smith
pedz@bobkat
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