Re: Y2K info

[modus-dejanews@pr.es.to (Patrick Michael Kane)]

On 28 Sep 1998 07:49:32 GMT, Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>modus-dejanews@pr.es.to (Patrick Michael Kane) wrote:
>
>>On 28 Sep 1998 01:20:03 GMT, A2MG <a2mg@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Let us know when and if an AW5 upgrade becomes available. 
>>>
>>>We're not going to do it. We could, but it would be illegal.
>>>
>>>
>>>Beverly Cadieux 
>>>AppleWorks 2000 updates now available
>>
>>Actually, it's perfectly within your rights as an owner of the Appleworks
>>software.  
>>
>>See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html for a good discussion
>>of this very topic.
>>
>>If the intent was to sell the patch, on the other hand, instead of giving
>>it away, you are quite right.  It would be illegal.
>
>Why is it illegal?  Quality, before talking to Claris, was going to
>release what came to be known as AppleWorks 4 as a set of
>patches to AppleWorks 3 called "Quadriga".
>
>If it is illegal, how could Quality have considered it?  Would it
>not make software like Signature GS (again from Quality) which
>patch the sound and graphics of GS/OS, in essense an upgrade,
>criminal?
>
>Selling it as "AppleWorks 6" might be illegal.  Selling it as
>"The Works" or some other name would not.

Hmm.  You may be right.  I'm not enough of a lawyer to say one way or the
other, thankfully.
-- 
Patrick Michael Kane
<modus-dejanews@pr.es.to>