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From: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
Message-ID: <374@halley.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 02:30:08 GMT
References: <5763@megaron.arizona.edu> <2150@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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In article <2150@rtech.UUCP> brent@rtech.UUCP (Brent Williams) writes:
>Personally, I don't blame SEA -- they put a fair amount of work into
>their code, they had the right idea at the right time, they released the
>source with all kinds of warnings about derivative works, etc.  Then 
>somebody comes along with a work that has some reasonable chance of being
>derivative (i.e., reads and writes .arc files compatibly) and makes tons
>of money off it.  Wouldn't you be a little fried?  I'd only be worried
>about a Unix port of ARC if I were selling it and making tons of dough.

Don't I recall that SEA stated maybe a year or so ago that they weren't going
to enhance the ARC product any further?  As I recall (my DOS memories are
getting stale these days), SEA wasn't overly serious about the product anyway,
as evidenced by the cessation of activity, even with the existence of a lively
user base.

-bc
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