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Re: [OT] Is it illegal to use orphanware?

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Subject: Re: [OT] Is it illegal to use orphanware?
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <sureshr@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:56:31 +0530
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Biju Chacko rearranged electrons thusly:

> The question is pretty academic because nobody is going to prosecute me. I 
> was just wondering what the legal aspects of using software like this 
> without paying for it.
 
 Copyright still exists ...

> This also affects the hundreds of job-typing centres that use WordStar on
> DOS.
 
 Remember the way Ray Noorda of Caldera and a few others sued M$ about DR-DOS?
 The question was who owned CP/M ;)
 
 M$ had all sorts of grief over that case ...

 	+suresh

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