Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!zehntel!berry From: berry@zehntel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Re: trees and sound - (nf) Message-ID: <1331@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 04:32:27 EST Article-I.D.: zehntel.1331 Posted: Tue Feb 28 04:32:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 16:25:58 EST Sender: berry@zehntel.UUCP Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 28 #R:vice:-126000:zinfandel:6600103:000:987 zinfandel!berry Feb 22 08:44:00 1984 Ah, yes, 1984. Jailed for hearing an unauthorized tree fall... So you think that's funny? We recently got a software product (nameless to protect the guilty (and me from lawsuits)) whose manual had this on the title page: "Copyright (C) 1983Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reporduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retireval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form o rby any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission od Inc, ." As near as I can figure, reading the distribution tape (which contains a copy of the manual) is a federal crime! Let alone actually reading (with your eyes) the manual itself and chemically storing it in your brain! (Yes, our license agreement probably gives us de facto permission, but come on!) Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900