Re: A89: Me distributing roms
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Re: A89: Me distributing roms
Why did I get 2 copies of this and the other messages you just sent to A89?
Bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan C Johnson" <benjamin99@juno.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms
>
> Look, no matter how you try to reason this out, the law is the law and
> the law says you *can't* distribute someone elses software freely without
> their permission. It doesn't matter if it happens through the internet,
> on floppy disks, or another way. Disclaimers are meaningless, they are
> only a statement. They can prosecute anyone who illegaly distributes
> software without the authors permission
>
> Alan
>
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:40:38 -0800
> > From: "Serial" <Serial@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
> >
> > see the thing is. The internet is public domain. It's precisly the
> > opposite
> > on the internet. If someone doesn't say it's private then it's not.
> > Unlike
> > say the Owner of the lawnmower saying it is free and you can take it
> > because
> > of that and if it's on his lawn and you take it without him knowing
> > it's
> > thieft, on the internet if it's on his lawn it's automatically free.
> > He
> > would have to put a sign up saying do not take and while maybe a
> > case could
> > be formed against someone who did it'd never get prosecuted. The
> > internet
> > has over 400 million people that pass through it in a single day,
> > the law on
> > a public network is not only free is that which you can attain but
> > even
> > extends to free is that which you can attain from sources other than
> > its
> > distrobutor. You'll notice that precisly for reasons such as this
> > adobe
> > doesn't offer a download of it on their site. (Trialware maybe?) If
> > they did
> > no words other than not being there in the first place are
> > equivalent to do
> > not touch.
>
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