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From: CS656@OUACCVMB.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: TAKES ALL SORTS!
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Date: 5 Jan 88 23:25:46 GMT
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Big Mac as public domaing? No, I don't think so.  I had an interesting
experience with Big Mac and more specifically it's author.  A friend of mine
who does not use anything he does not own was given a "shareware" copy of Big
Mac. This person is a developer of new languages working under some large grant
s and has no need to pirate anything even if he was so inclined, which he isn't
.  We looked through the zeroxed docs for a price and an address to the payment
to.  Not finding either I posted an E-Mail message to the author on Compu-serve
You would have thought that I'd asked to rent his daughter. He ccalled me a thi
ef and a liar and then got rude. All long distance, of course. I wrote it off
as what happens when you use a public service and deleted the mail and trashed
the program.  The next time that I logged on their was a note from a "Mr"
Goodin telling me that the message about piracy was in the public interest and
that he had ressurected it for all to see.  My original message, asking for inf
o on buying the program was silicon history but I was not allowed to delete the
note calling me a thief.  I now use own ORCA/M  and refuse to use Merlin or
Compuserve.