Re: Net piracy? +++

[blakjak@panix.com (Noah Mittman)]

David K. Leikam (dkl@crl.com) screamed from comp.sys.apple2:
: In article <30kfao$gq3@panix.com>, Noah Mittman <blakjak@panix.com> wrote:
: >
: >OTOH: I'm sorry, but there isn't anything called abandonment of software.

:    Sorry, Noah. You are just as dead wrong about this, as it is possible 
: to be.  Software is (more or less) protected by copyright. Fail to defend 
: that copyright diligently, and you lose that copyright to the public domain.

Hello? I might not have been too clear, but that's along the lines of what I
meant. What I meant by that was it's very easy to come across something that
is "abandonned", but if you make money off of it, you tend to find
that the authors who "didn't care" will be seeking some share of the profit.

:   Here is a big hint for you.
Sorry, I missed it. Your ego got in the way.
(btw - try to read entire posts. it helps.)


noah
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