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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <1938@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 17:56:08 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> 
>    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.
>  
>   Perhaps one of our virus experts could check it out to see if whoever
> removed the copyright message added a few undocumented features, like disk
> formats, etc. Anyway its definitely pirated software that's been altered
> so use at your own risk, both physical and moral !!.
>  
> Fred Widall
> DP70@WATDCS.NETNORTH
>  

Not necessarily.  Many compilers put copyright messages in their run-time
libraries, but that doesn't mean that the entire program that contains the
run-time library is copyrighted by Borland.

I too, would like to see sources to PLANETS, mostly because I wished it
supported EGA mode and not just CGA.

Clayton E. Cramer