#CompuS Copyright
08-Oct-86 19:59:58
Sb: #35667-#CompuS Copyright
Fm: Jon Franks 76357,1211
To: Jim Nangano/SYSOP 76703,4254
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Jim,
Retraction? Let me look at it…
[paraphrase]
'Dash' wrote a program called 'Dashterm'.
'Dash' became a CIS sysop.
'Dash' "modified his terminal program to include a notice that it was
available only via CompuServe and could not be uploaded to other
services"
'Dash's old crowd on Delphi objected.
What is there in that to retract? As far as I can tell it all happened.
The only sentence in the article about 'Dash' that wasn't visible to those
not involved is the sentence "This made perfect sense to Dash since he
would get a 'cut' of the connect-time charges used to acquire his
program." I could well believe that that is not true, but I wouldn't think
it enough for Compute! to be printing a retraction. Now, I support
strongly your right as an author to limit distribution of your program.
Don't get me wrong. I just thought it was tacky to make that CIS-only
restriction after it had already been freely (and widely) distributable in
previous incarnations. Oh well.
Jon