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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: There's No Fun At Pixar
Message-ID: <3736@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 16:32:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3736
Posted: Wed Aug 12 16:32:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 04:54:35 EDT
References: <1681@cadovax.UUCP> <921@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <3694@well.UUCP> <986@pixar.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Distribution: world
Organization: Hole Earth 'Lectronic Loss (or words to that effect)
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Summary: I have respect.  Believe me, I do.

In article <986@pixar.UUCP> banzai@pixar.UUCP (Eric Herrmann) writes:
>Pixar certainly gained a lot of flames from amiga-netters.  If you'll look
>back, you'll see quite a few nasty words from people who probably should know 
>better considering how little they really know about the whole affair (and 
>Pixar).

	And if you look even further back, you'll see that I wrote, in
large flaming letters, "Do not flame Pixar about this."  But that's a moot
point by now.

>Consider:  Wouldn't the creators of RD be a lot happier to approve 
>release of Leo's work if the Amiga community were more receptive [to
>Pixar's views]?
>
	Now *there's* a good point....

>You know, even if you can't distribute the source to your work, you could
>still distribute a "how-to" telling how you constructed your models, how
>you made the unicycle move, and the like.  I doubt that anyone but you can
>copyright the actual models.  
>
	Well, I *could* do that.  But that strikes me as an end-run around
Pixar, which seems dishonorable.

>Personally, I think the whole question of copyrightedness is silly.
	Me too.

> I do, however, suscribe to the hacker ethic of "Respect another's work".

	Me too.  That's why I've initiated a dialog with Pixar.

	I'll keep you all posted....

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 \_ -_	Unicycle held back at Pixar's demand,  dual --->!{well,unicom}!ewhac
O----^o	 But it's still rather impressive.     hplabs /(pronounced "AE-wack")
"Work FOR?  I don't work FOR anybody!  I'm being sued to hell!"  -- Me