Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!jlg From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Privateers Message-ID: <336@lanl-a.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 12:05:29 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl-a.336 Posted: Thu Jun 2 12:05:29 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 08:51:38 EDT References: sri-arpa.1640 Lines: 6 I suppose a privateer I software would be someone who obtains (legally or illegally) some software and makes monor changes to it. This 'new' program can then be copyrighted and sold as a new product. The problem is that it is very difficult to prove that slightly altered software was not an original developement of the privateer. I suspect that much of the software available today is privateered public domain software.