Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ZOO availability (was: A Short History of Arching on Micros) Message-ID: <8683@smoke.ARPA> Date: 14 Oct 88 04:14:38 GMT References: <13593@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4330109@hpindda.HP.COM> <6910@dasys1.UUCP> <5107@teddy.UUCP> <4314@bsu-cs.UUCP> <30666@oliveb.olivetti.com> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11 All of the commercial online services have compilation copyrights. That's how they keep their competitors from wholesale downloading everything to put on another competing service. It would appear that the prohibitions in ZOO would prevent it from being carried by *any* online commercial service, regardless of the price charged for downloading. -- --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M and MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.0.0.74] Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz