On 9/15/99 22:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I think the point is that when it is put into free download status
>it enters the public domain and is no longer protected, AFAIK.
>Paul Nelson
This is absolutely untrue. The copyright holder retains distribution
rights for the term of the copyright, whether or not he chooses to make
the material available through some venues at no cost. For a third party
to copy the material and charge for it is theft, pure and simple. I am
quite sure that if you started selling copies of Mac OS 7.5.3 on CD--
which Apple has posted for download at no charge-- you would attract the
attention of Apple's legal team. Likewise Microsoft and Internet
Explorer, Aladdin and StuffIt Expander, Stairways and Internet Config, et
al.
BC
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