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From: kmc@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: EGAD! graphics for the IBM PC
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Date: 4 May 88 08:03:09 GMT
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David Morrill works for IBM at Yorktown Heights Research Center.  
What you ran across is demo of a graphics function library he 
wrote for the EGA.  The software was useful enough to be 
distributed internally, and as such was designated IBM Internal 
Use Only.  Not everything that gets developed in Research finds 
its way to the outside world, particularly through official 
product development channels. In this case, even though EGAD was 
never released, some people somewhere along the internal 
distribution channel misunderstood the distinction between free 
software and public domain software, and uploaded it to the BBS 
network.

Technically, since the software was developed as part of 
Morrill's job, it's the property of IBM.  So it isn't shareware, 
it isn't freeware(tm) and it isn't public domain.  It's just an 
accidental leak of experimental work in progress.
Kevin McCarty