Re: Asimov Site

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <39A222E7.A4511BEA@pcnet.com>, phoenyx  <duke@pcnet.com> wrote:
}> Thank you for the information.  I look at it as preserving history not
}> pirating.  If the company has gone out of business why would anyone care?
}> An example is E-Bay.  People don't think of that as pirating, but in many
}> cases they are re-selling an item and receiving more money than what they
}> originally paid for it.  I've seen it happen a lot.  And the companies
}> products they have done it to still are in buisness.
}> Anyway, we now recognise that we need to preserve our history.  Hence,
}> historical sites.  The government sets them aside and anyone in the world
}> can share in its history.  Mabye we need to now start a computer historical
}> sites.  So we can preserve how we got where we are to day with computers.
}>  Well I've go on long enough.  I just hope that programs that are no longer
}> from a company in buisness disappear.  That would be a tragedy.
}
}Many of those software packages are under a copyright which doesn't allow for
}transferal of the software, manual and/or other items supplied with it.

US copyright law specifically authorizes resale without permission of
the copyright holder.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."