Re: History; code

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Perhaps if you wanted to legally acquire a new copy of XyWrite, you could
buy the rights from somebody who used to use it but doesn't any more, and
them make a copy from anybody's floppy disks or hard drive.

Like in Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls.

Once again I would point out that if you *did* copy XyWrite illegally,
nothing would happen to you because there would be nobody to prosecute you.
And as for ethics, there are many countries in which patents can be voided
for failure to work the patent. I don't know if there is something like
that in the US.

Norman


At 04:06 PM 10/20/01 -0400, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

>	One reason for trying to get rights to the code is that without it, no
>one _new_ will ever be able to acquire, install, and learn XyWrite
>legally. The EULA says we cannot make copies except for "archival
>purposes." So prospective users cannot buy it, and we cannot legally give
>it to them.


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