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From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen )
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Exec-PC BBS to ban ARC files
Message-ID: <8474@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Sep 88 05:41:16 GMT
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Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) <w8sdz>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Tom Neff seems to be forgetting that SEA is allegedly threatening legal
action against other shareware authors of programs that read/write or
display the directories of ARC files.

The decision to eventually remove all ARC files from the public domain
archives is motivated by the nagging fear that the next step will be for
SEA to demand royalties from anyone distributing ANYTHING in ARCs!  We
will not allow ourselves to be put in that position.  Our archiving
method must be totally public domain.


-- 
Keith Petersen
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