Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Phil Katz (PKARC author) sued by SE
Message-ID: <11299@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 20 Jun 88 15:49:04 GMT
References: <5912@megaron.arizona.edu> <7638@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <7638@swan.ulowell.edu> boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) writes:
| I don't believe Phil Katz did (or could) use the source code to SEA's ARC. I
| corresponded some time ago with Vern Buerg, the author of ARC, about the
| source code to ARC 5.21, hoping to create a UNIX port. He told me that
| almost all the code was in MASM, which would not be easily portable. He did,
| however, point me to Phil Katz, whose PK[X]ARC programs were written in C.

  I'm sure lot's of people will let you know this is totally false.  ARC
is the one written in C, and the source has been posted to the net
several times in various states of revision.  PKARC source is a guarded
secret, and no one could steal anything from it because it not
(generally) available. 

| He doesn't seem to have any grudge against Phil, but he doesn't hold the
| copyright. SEA does, and obviously they think Phil did something.

  As I recall ARCE is now bundled with ARC, and Vernon requests that
donations be sent to SEAware. Seems that he believes in giving credit to
the originators of the idea.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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