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Re: News items from a2central.com
- Subject: Re: News items from a2central.com
- From: russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:57:30 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Ghotinet
- References: <967260119.39a737d707371@webmail.cotse.com>
- Xref: supernews.google.com comp.sys.apple2:984
In article <967260119.39a737d707371@webmail.cotse.com>,
<penman@N-o_s-p-a-m-cotse.com> wrote:
}hmmmm....I haven't seen the merlin release myself in some time.
}However, I have no doubts that what Sheppy reported from the splash
}screen is correct: copyrighted by Roger Wagner's company and not
}copyrighted by Glen Bredon. If that's the case, copyright would not
}have automatically gone back to Glen when the company folded, unless
}there was a specific agreement to that in writing--and we've nothing
}to show that so far. That being the case, and until Sheppy can track
}down the info (you do sleep sometime during the week, don't you,
}Sheppy? :) ) I think the safe thing to do would to NOT post Merlin
}until the matter's cleared up. A little delay won't hurt, and would
}put the subject back into the "a good job done" catagory again.
This kind of crap rather proves you argue in bad faith. Someone goes
through all the effort to get some piece of software legitimately
released, and you insist on more and higher hoops to jump through.
Those like you are the reason there's a concept in law called
"standing".
--
Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."