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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Re: Copyright notices (was: Shareware? Hah!)
Message-ID: <1489@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 05:51:22 GMT
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Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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Posted: Tue Mar  8 06:51:22 1988

In article <160@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
>
>My point was that "legal" or not, and regardless of any discussions
>to that effect here or elsewhere:  DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP.  The
>authorites showed no desire to help a small software company in Oakland;
>that includes both US and German authorites (police and Fed. agencies).
I almost don't believe that, but... yes, possible.
>
>In other words: you can read and discuss laws and legalities all you want,
>but in the *real world* all this means very little.

THAT ist awfully true.
We all now about piracy, do we?

There was an attempt to stop piracy: if you can't stop it, legalize it.
Make the program shareware (back to the original subject...)

My opinion? Shareware ist a great thing... if anybody pays (like me;
now)...

hase
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