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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Public Domain Procomm?
Message-ID: <16935@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 89 01:04:24 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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<5215@homxc.ATT.COM> marty@homxc.ATT.COM (M.B.BRILLIANT):
-<1384@arctic.nprdc.arpa>, snguyen@nprdc.arpa (Son Nguyen) writes:
-> I have a public domain software "Procomm"....
-
-Stop right there.  Procomm 2.4.2, which is the latest as far as I know,
-is shareware, not public domain.  Public domain means not copyrighted. 
-Shareware is copyrighted, and anybody is allowed to give copies to
-others to try out for a reasonable time, but if you continue to use it
-you are required to pay for it.

I don't believe any version of Procomm was ever in the public domain, although
the copyright holders, Datastorm Technologies (nee' PIL Technologies) may not
have much remaining interest in versions prior to v2.4.2.

v2.4.2 has been supplanted by Procomm Plus, which is out in a demo version.
(This is on the border between "shareware" and straight commercial
products, in my opinion, although I still like the idea.)