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========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 04:10:45 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@SAMSARA.LAW.CWRU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Earliest "free software"
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 02:43:34 CST."
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Doug Yowza writes:
: An interesting tanget (given your well-known interest in Bill Gates) is : Bill Gate's infamous "don't give my BASIC away for free" letter that was : distributed in the mid 1970's. If you can't find a copy, let me know -- I : think I have a digital version someplace.
I would very much like to see that letter again. I hope that someone can post a URL where it can be found or that you, or someone else, will post a copy to this list. I think that that primal whine is an important document in understanding the peculiar consequences of allowing the functionality of computer programs to be protected by copyright.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
NOTE: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@SAMSARA.LAW.CWRU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Earliest "free software"
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 02:43:34 CST."
<Pine.LNX.3.95.981202023405.17731J-100000@behemoth.host4u.net>
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Doug Yowza writes:
: An interesting tanget (given your well-known interest in Bill Gates) is : Bill Gate's infamous "don't give my BASIC away for free" letter that was : distributed in the mid 1970's. If you can't find a copy, let me know -- I : think I have a digital version someplace.
I would very much like to see that letter again. I hope that someone can post a URL where it can be found or that you, or someone else, will post a copy to this list. I think that that primal whine is an important document in understanding the peculiar consequences of allowing the functionality of computer programs to be protected by copyright.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
NOTE: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists
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