Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oddjob!hao!gatech!sbmsg1!scbhq!ll1a!nesac2!jec
From: jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <976@nesac2.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 05:11:03 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: A.T.&T. Lisle, Ill.
Lines: 38
Summary: just a free ad

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

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> you'll find this in ANY program
   created with one of the Borland products.
   I suspect that the Microsoft compilers also put their ad in the
   compiled code.  

] 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
]  

Let's not be quite so paranoid about the software posted to the net
and/or your local BBS.  Neither Borland nor Microsoft is in the
game/fun software business, so I don't think Borland produced 
 'planets'.

If you looked a little closer at the program, you'd probably find
the words "Turbo Pascal" tucked away in there also.  Turbo Basic
puts "TURBO BASIC Copyright 1987 Borland International" into
anything it compiles.  The database manager I wrote for my church has
a line like this in it, but I can show every line of the source code,
none of which has the word 'Copyright' in it.
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