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Re: [ossig] OSS from ground zero

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Subject: Re: [ossig] OSS from ground zero
From: Imran William Smith <iwsmith@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:26:20 +0800
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Seah Hong Yee wrote:
 Wordstar 6.0  is legal in Malaysia
> regardless if you got it from bootleg copies 
> since it is out of business and
> there are no entities to inherit the claim.   


Doesn't make it legal, AFAIK.  According to a report I read
recently on IP [written in the USA], this is an urban myth.

Illegal, but maybe unenforcably so.

Imran




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Imran William Smith,
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