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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <412@white.gcm>
Date: 23 Feb 88 03:34:55 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <628@csm9a.UUCP>
Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <628@csm9a.UUCP> japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
>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.
=>  
=
=More obviously Mr. Widall doesn't know what he's talking about and probably
=shouldn't be allowed to use CHK4BOMB and possibly computers in general!
=PLANETS.COM is a compiled Turbo Pascal program and though Borland does own
=a copyright on the libraries it was compiled with they have no right to 
=the program.  PLANET.COM is definately (sic) not a trojan or pirate simply because
=someone who knows NOTHING about PC software misinterprets information he
=probably isn't qualified to look at anyway.  This really burns me... it's
=how most trojan / virus rumors start anyway... in 5 years of telecomputing
=and PC support I have NEVER found a bonified trojan!!!  Only users who don't
=know what their doing!
=
=I have the source for PLANETS.COM but I doubt if such a user would know what
=to do with it!!!
=
=    Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center

More obviously Joe Applegate has the biggest mouth in the world.  Why would
anyone want to read the tenth response to a routine message, especially one
as obnoxious as his?  Ever heard of email or one sentence replies?  This really
burns me, people who want to shoot off their mouths, when they definitely
have NOTHING unique or interesting to say.  Its amazing that nine other people
were able to respond to the guys message without citing their vast amount of
experience (I mean my God, Five Whole Years, in PC support, I'm overwhelmed
I hope you wouldn't mind if I knelt in your presence).

To summarize ES&D, FO, GTH.