>I'm just going to add here that, no matter what the copyright laws say, it
>is up to the copyright holder to protect it. If they don't, or choose not
>to... (IANAL)
How are they supposed to _do_ this?? I mean, if I write a piece of
commercial or shareware software, I can put a copyright notice in the about
window telling everybody that I'm retaining the copyright and expect
people to pay for using it, but how am I supposed to actually protect my
software from infringement if I don't want any nagging screens, trial
periods,
crippled functionality etc. because I think users should be granted
sufficient
time and functionality to enable them to make up their minds in their own
good time?
<strange diffuse image forming in back of mind>
A diffuse picture of Frank, looking very dangerous, travelling all over the
world tracing this world's remaining Newton owners. Always clad in black,
wearing a black mask and holding a vicious-looking beam weapon when he
finally forces them point blank in some dark (not _that_ dark for pre-MP130
owners) alley to hand their Newtons over for inspection, searching for
illegal copies of DotClock and BetterSetter...).
</strange diffuse image forming in back of mind>
Puzzled...
Frank
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