Are modern videogames software? or are more like an interective movie? Sometimes is dificult to explain what software is.
----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: Early Software Free? > Fedor Zuev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Initially, back in 50s-60s-70s all software > > was free software. Proprietary software come into being only after > > computer programs was copyrighted. Computer programs was copyrighted > > relatively late, in 1976 year in USA, in 1991 year in Russia and > > maybe even later in some other countries. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > Computer Programs Political Writing > > Started 1950 600 BC > > Copyright legally clear 1976 AD 1700 > > Okay, I have an Algol68 compiler written at Oklahoma State University > in 1971. (This is not a hypothetical - I have this code, and have > considered porting it to a more modern system, say Fortran 77 targetting > a VAX.) Is it clearly in the public domain? I could ask permission, but > I get the feeling I might end up talking to the Board of Regents who > would see it as a money making opportunity. > > -- > __________________________________________________________ http://www.chess-gambit.com
