Re: your mail

[Jim Hartley <xjimh@worldnet.att.net>]

If he owns a legal copy of the product (he says he'd do it himself if he 
had a floppy drive on the machine), one would have to be nitpicking in 
the extreme to call this a violation. He COULD send his copy to someone 
who would build the hdimage and send it back to him, that would be 
legal, wouldn't it? (IANAL) Getting someone who owns an identical copy 
of the DOS to send him the image without all the bother really doesn't 
sound any worse.

In any case, who is going to bother about suing one individual over a 
copy of **DOS** in this day and age? Most people have forgotten what DOS 
is by now! If he was doing a few thousand copies it might be a problem, 
but I think this one is WAY, WAY under the radar.

Jim Hartley

Ged Haywood wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Darryl Perry wrote:
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>>Does anybody have an hdimage file with MSDOS6.x
>>installed that I can use?
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>Do be careful.  That sounds like abuse of copyright to me.
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>>I'd make it myself, but I don't have a floppy drive on my linux box.
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>Installing a floppy drive is a lot cheaper than defending a lawsuit...
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>73,
>Ged.
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