Re: Installing Xy under 32-bit Win; Manual; ANSI

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

It certainly would not be fair use to copy Salinger's work. The copyright will
remain in effect until 70 years after his death. If you don't like the law as
it stands, write your Representative and your Senators. But the law is what it
is. You cannot put yourself above the law just because you want to, needless to
say. But I say it anyway because some of you obviously do not get it.

Intellectual property is intellectual property whether you like it or not.




Norman Bauman wrote:

> >From an ethical POV, we have on the one hand, abandoned property that none
> of its creators wants to use, profit from, or make available, and that they
> apparently don't care about.
>
> On the other hand, this property is useful to others, including the people
> like me who bought their property when they were selling it. I bought
> XyWrite with the understanding that they'd be around when I needed them.
>
> I can think of lots of legitimate reasons for somebody copying XyWrite and
> XyQuest software and manuals.
>
> Copying abandoned software and manuals is fair use. If J.D. Salinger wasn't
> around to complain, it would be fair use to copy his works too.
>
> Norman
>
> At 02:04 PM 8/15/02 -0700, Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >You mean, "as if somebody might still be able to make money off that
> property and I'm stealing the bread from their mouth" kind of "as if"?
> >
> >...except that nobody seems to have any desire to make any money from what
> I want to offer...and offer for free. I don't concede your point.
>
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