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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Time to flame at Aegis....
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 14:11:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 14:11:13 1987
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In article <228@uscacsc.UUCP> papa@uscacsc.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes:
>I don't understand.  One cannot buy commercial rights to a "public domain"
>program.  By being public domain, EVERYBODY can have if FOR FREE! You
>can copy iy, modify iy, sell it, do anything with it! What is this ROT 
>program?  Is it on the Fish disks?
>-- Marco

A) I believe that the author of ROT retained the copyright, someone may
   be randomly assuming free = public domain.

B) Even if it is P.D. the author can be convinced :-) to never write a 
   newer version (which is sometimes sufficient)

C) What Aegis needed apparently was the User Interface, so there is not
   much chance that one would be able to modify the current ROT into a 
   3-D product like Aegis'. [Ed Note : Bill Volk claims that a 10.5 meg
   Amiga could do about 10 minutes of animation, so y'all send off for 
   your 8Meg ASDG boards!]

D) Yes, it is on one of the Fish library disks. [#71 to be specific]
   It is also a Binary only distribution.

Last but not least, Ok already, my copy of Diga! has the same bugs. I was
using it for vi and emacs on my workstation and it was working fine, when
I run vttest I get the same results as Marco. Note also that Bill Volk has
uploaded the documentation on building emulators to BIX and I assume sent
a copy to Fred so it may be up to us to write a decent emulator.

--Chuck McManis
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