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From: nj@ndmath.UUCP ( ~ )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware? Hah!
Message-ID: <1043@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 17:39:06 GMT
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In article <407@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, kudla@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
> In article <22977@brunix.UUCP> cs224065@brap0a94.UUCP (Nicholas Thompson) writes:
> >give you some protection, but apparently the letter of the law says
> >that you need the little symbol that isn't in the ASCII character
> >set.  So how do you protect your source code?  Well, all the stuff
> >mentioned above counts for something, I hope...
> 
> Actually, having a bitmapped c-with-a-circle is about the only sure
> way to do it.

Since a computer can't draw a perfect circle, it wouldn't work.  For
that matter, humans can't draw a perfect circle, either.  Therefore,
all copyrights in books heretofore, containing "C" in an imperfect
circle, are in fact invalid.

Y'all excuse me while I go off and write _Gone With the Wind_.