Re: Net piracy? +++

[dkl@crl.com (David K. Leikam)]

In article <30kfao$gq3@panix.com>, Noah Mittman <blakjak@panix.com> wrote:
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>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.


  Here is a big hint for you. Look up the term, "aspirin", sometime.


  (Maybe CS cirricula need to include a lot more history courses. Those 
who don't remember the past...)


___

  Oh, and for Jawaid and the other (expletive deleted)'s about the "silly 
couch example"...

   Sorry, boys, but I'm no more interested in hypothetical cases than the 
courts are.  This is an actual example of how someone chose to abandon 
property -- I know, my back hurt for a day after I helped him carry it 
out to the curb.  You can reach him here: jerryn@crl.com