Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!cae780!amdcad!amd!intelca!mipos3!omepd!psu-cs!reed!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!bright From: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) Newsgroups: net.sources.games Subject: Empire Message-ID: <1222@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 14:35:57 EST Article-I.D.: dataio.1222 Posted: Mon Dec 22 14:35:57 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 19:01:17 EST Organization: Data I/O - FutureNet Corp., Redmond, WA Lines: 21 Ed states that VMS Empire has passed through so many hands that it is public domain. It is true that it has passed through many hands, but it is not public domain. The originals were stolen from me and were submitted to DECUS. If someone, say, got the sources to Microsoft's MASM, and spread them around, that certainly would not make MASM public domain. Why is it different because I don't have the resources to go around suing people? For all you netters out there, I have looked at the sources posted, and they are obviously derived from the originals that I wrote back in 1977, even down to the obscure variable names. The man page for it is nearly word for word what I originally wrote. DECUS withdrew from publishing the source to EMPIRE after I showed them the originals I had done. Please do me the courtesy of deleting the postings. By the way, the original was in Fortran-10 for a PDP-10, which is way before either VAXes or VMS existed. I'm sorry if I got a little hot under the collar, but most of the time people who wish to post Empire have been nice enough not to after I requested them not to, and I appreciate that.