Subj : Re: Point about Spam! To : Foxy Ferguson From : Gary Gilmore Date : Thu Feb 21 2002 08:40 am FF> But the *author* released it to "all Fidonet sysops". In the FF> documentation. I'm not going to get into this pissing match other than to say this... What the author says goes. No one has the right to further restrict (or unrestrict) what the author requested, period. "special versions" and all that is hooey. If the author really didn't want some "super secret custom wonderversion" to be released, then the software would say that when you started it up, similar to: Volestomper v1.9c Private release, please do not redistribute If you don't see that, AND the author had elsewhere said "it's all yours, folks" without further restrictions governing release, distribution (methods or limitations), then it's FOR EVERYONE. Period. That's my take on it, now someone send me a copy of this, since I'm part of "everyone", and I don't have a copy. Really.. this is getting silly. It's starting to sound like kids in a sandbox fighting over a toy... "it's MINE! " "No, it's MIIIINNNE! " "MOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!" Whatever we do, let's keep bickering... the vultures circling overhead really like when we do that. --gary --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: just another node... (1:2410/400) .