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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: more dave barry
Message-ID: <429@looking.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 17:01:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: looking.429
Posted: Sat Sep 28 17:01:18 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:42:37 EDT
References: <421@npois.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <421@npois.UUCP> jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) writes:
>
>	About nine months ago during the last flap about Dave Barry and
>copyrights, a person on the net reported that he personnally had sent
>Dave Barry a letter about all this, and had gotten back a letter from
>Dave Barry himself saying that he was pleased to have his material on
>our net. But since the turnover on the net is pretty high, I expect that we
>will see this kind of complaint very often. In any case, since his
>friendly easy-going original humor appeals to me quite a bit more than
>95% of the other material on this net, I propose that we let it continue,
>and enjoy it.

Holy quoting out of context, Batman!  It astounds me how stories like this
get distorted.

Dave Barry said: (and I might add in the apparent belief that the net was
		just a few university computers)

1) He personally wouldn't mind if you shared it with your computer buddies.

2) Sorry, but he has sold all rights to the articles to a syndicator

3) He was fairly sure that the syndicator *would* object.

Many of you people write software for your employers as your way of making
a living.  Let's say you wrote a nice compiler.  Now say somebody came up to
you and said, "hey do you mind if we take this compiler you wrote and
copy it around hundreds of universities?"  You might then say, "It's not
mine to give away, but if it were, this would be alright by me."

Would this make the copying legitimate?  What would your employer think?

This is exactly the same sort of situation, except for the fact that compilers
cost more and have fewer total customers.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473