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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
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Subject: Re: Re: rip-off companies (was Re: PD Boot Disks)
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Date: Sun, 31-May-87 17:49:21 EDT
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in article <> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) typed:
> I talked to one kid who wrote a program for Megasoft,
> and he says that he received whole $12 in royalties, and Megasoft said that
> they only sold 10 copies...

If you have ever see my standard "giveaway" program disclaimer you will notice
that it basically says that, out of the 4.5 billion or so people on this planet
I exclude only four from doing whatever they want with that software.  Two of 
these are Reggie Warren and Jim Drew, owener/operator and primary "contributor"
to (you guessed it) Megasoft.  The other two names mentioned are Robert Skyles
and his company, Skyles Electric Works (tm?).
I don't really want to go into details at the moment, but let it suffice to
say that exclusion was made for a perceived "abuse of software" "theft" and/or
"malicious use of the legal system for monetary enrichment".  The cases are
still pending.  (lawyers, guns, money...)

But don't let that affect your purchasing decisions or deter YOU from marketing
YOUR products via these companies.


> Ya know, none of this cr*p would be necessary if we all tried to live like
> human beings and quit trying to f*ck each other.... sigh.... it's enough to
> make a person ashamed of being a member of the same species.

!!!



(Maybe we, John Lennon and a few others could get together and designate a new
species :-) :-) :-) :-) 8-}
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