Word: copyrighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means old. (Thus a "new idea" -- in Hollywood, for example -- means an old idea that is not under copyright. Something that happened yesterday, though, is "old news...
...difficult to find anyone at Harvard who owns a copy of every piece of software he or she uses, and who fully abides by every license restriction. Most people can't afford it, and the rest unwittingly violate license terms. For example, how many people actually place the software copyright notice on their one and only backup disk...
...only "free" software to stay on the moral high ground, helping your neighbors without running afoul of the law. "Free," in this context, does not necessarily mean without charge; software users should certainly expect to pay for diskettes and manuals. But since this kind of software is free from copyright restrictions, owners can make hundreds of duplicates for friends who want copies...
Instead of putting a copyright on his software, Stallman and his Free Software Foundation put a "copyleft" on it, poking fun at the laws they hate. Software with a copyleft can be modified by users, and can be distributed to anyone. Any new program that uses free source code is automatically free as well...
...same story, with three variations: the family is missing, not dead; the hostile terrain is the Western U.S.; and the intrepid youngsters are two dogs and a cat (voiced by Michael J. Fox, Sally Field and Don Ameche). Only the species have been changed to protect the copyright...