Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!AppleLink.Apple.Com!Greg
From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greggy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net? (Was latest version...)
Message-ID: <2109@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 May 89 01:12:16 GMT
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References:<31641@apple.Apple.COM> <1936@husc6.harvard.edu> <31668@apple.Apple.COM>

In article <31668@apple.Apple.COM> jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) 
writes:
>         I have worked in the past to see if it would be possible to make
> MacsBug and ResEdit available over the net and via FTP from Sumex.  The
> folks in legal looked into and told me that to do so would make us open 
to
> losing our copyrights according to the US Copyright office.  This is due 
to
> the anarachastic nature of the net, and cannot be addressed without 
changing
> the fundamental nature of the net.

Or the fundamental nature of the short-sighted copyright laws.

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