Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 09:02:56 12/10/04
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On December 10, 2004 at 10:52:48, K. Burcham wrote: > >What if someone goes to Roberts site and copies free files. >Takes these files to another site and offers for download to anyone for free. >Other than making a bunch of people mad, is this illegal? >what is the difference between this example and the Arena example? >Maybe you will say it depends on the exact wording covering this, but I would >think that there is kind of a standard way to manage this. There is so much >freeware on the internet. > >also why is Frank so upset about his freeware available at another site vs his >own server? I read all replies but this has not been answered. > >kburcham I don't think that Frank is so upset about v1.0 at another site. I think that Frank is upset on Peter Skinner. I don't think that Peter is offering Arena 1.0 just to be helpful. I think that Peter just want to provoke the Arena moderators including Frank. You hit me, I hit you, you want revenge, I strike back. Kind of middle east situation. OTOH I think that the Arena team is in their full right to protect the software, free or not. IMO this could be done in a smarter way. Unless they want the publicity of course... /Peter
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