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From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (Bug-Hunter)
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Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
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Date: 20 Feb 88 23:34:36 GMT
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In article <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services) writes:
>
>   A few days ago someone was asking for source to PLANETS.COM that was
>posted recently. I just ran PLANETS through CHK4BOMB and found a
>"Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." message in it. When you invoke PLANETS
>it displays the message "PLANETS V3.0 is a Public Domain Program". Looks
>like someone's doing a little piracy.
> 
>formats, etc. Anyway its definitely pirated software that's been altered
>so use at your own risk, both physical and moral !!.
> 
>Fred Widall

I don't see your basis for thinking this program is pirated. The message
"Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." is a message put in by the Turbo Pascal
compiler in all the COM files, basically to say that the program was done
using one of Borland's compilers. I remember seeing that Borland (and some
other companies did this, sort of like "free advertizing") did this,
but Borland's Licence Agreement states that the author has all copyrights to
any software produced by such a compiler.
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