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Subject: Re: What would

Author: Eduard Nemeth

Date: 17:40:28 12/09/05

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Dear Uri!

On the Page

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/index.html

under New page

stands:

"Updated: Rybka 1.0 beta (UCI only) Not available anymore!!"

If the Author or the Homepage closed the Download (it must have an reason ;), I
seems, that we all should respected it.

Thanks,
Eduard.


On December 09, 2005 at 19:31:30, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 09, 2005 at 15:46:55, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Let's suppose that there is no law against it.
>>
>>It is clearly against the author's wishes.
>>
>>For that reason alone, it should not be posted without permission.
>
>I do not think that this reason is good enough.
>
>Not giving it to people is clearly against the wish of a lot of people who are
>interested in getting it.
>
>The only reason not to do it is that it is possible that the law forbid it and
>if that is the law then it is a bad law because a law should be clear and it is
>clear that a lot of people believe that it is legal to share something that they
>downloaded from the internet withut agreeing to restrictions.
>
>I think that authors should expect people who download a program to share it so
>if they do not like it they should not give it to people except limited team of
>beta testers that they trust.
>
>Uri



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