My goal was to find the legal owner and see if they would sell me a copy of the source code and let me make changes for personal use only. It has to have a copywrite on it so why didn't the office find one; it seems a simple job. Their reply was that they couldn't find anything, How is that possible? They never asked for more imformation.
DS On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:28:38 -0700 Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> writes: > On 7/2/2018 7:58 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > > Which doesn't explain why the copywright > > office didn't find anything for "Crosstalk" > > which was after 1978. > Which is nonsense to begin with, as there simply can't be any DOS > software before 1981, the year the first MS/PC-DOS version came out. > That means that any software, that hasn't been specifically put into > Public Domain is under copyright for at least 70 years... > > Also, what is that copywrite/copywright office you keep talking > about? > If you're dealing with legal issues, it really pays to be precise... > > Ralf > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ 'Genius' Pill - Top 1% Didn't Want The Public To Know About The Brain Insider http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5b3bb662c47b236624d4fst01duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user