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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
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Subject: Re: YACQ (Yet another copyright question)
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 21:32:36 EST
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In an article, Webber writes:
<> Consider company X which sells a Un*x system & software.  Can they include
<> code that contains the above restriction, free of charge?  Or in order words
<> can one sell Un*x for $Y, and toss in such programs for free?
<
< HOPEFULLY NOT.  If the software did not add value to their
< distribution, they wouldn't distribute it (tossing it in for free is
< not a meaningful concept).

When I worked at Callan Data Systems, we were seriously thinking
of putting all the interesting stuff we had found on net.sources in
our distributions.  There was plenty of free space, so why not?

I wanted to do this because I thought that it would be a nice
surprise to people who buy the system to find a bunch of fun stuff
to play with ( besides, if they are all busy playing "hack", they
are not calling up and making me look bad by reporting bugs in
my code :-) ).

The plan was eventually killed by Support.  They felt that no matter
how many disclaimers that the software is not from Callan and not
supported by Callan, there would still be a lot of customers who
would call in and expect support. 
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