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From: hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Unauthorized" Sale of Redistributable Software
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Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 12:14:28 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.291
Posted: Sat Nov  8 12:14:28 1986
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Summary: your telephone number
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In article , gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> [Net.sources.d folks, see  for context.  John Toebes is
> upset that The Public Domain Software Connection is selling "his" version
> of Hack, which he posted to the net for worldwide distribution, for $9,
> which includes a $7 floppy disk.]
> 
> I don't understand the upset.

I do.  I even have a way to make sure that you will, too.  I'll just go
through all my USENET tapes until I find something YOU wrote, add a bunch
of really great code, complete with whatever bugs just come naturally, and
then I'll make sure I don't delete YOUR telephone number from it.  Of course,
I'll also make sure that it doesn't have mine.  Of course, I'm not serious
about what I just said; I wouldn't ever do that to you, John.  But now I do
wonder: can you get somebody for anguish caused to you by their publishing
YOUR telephone number in a privately distributed document?  Hmmmmn...

								Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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