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Message   alexande    Aleksej Serdjukov   Re: Program Quoter - you are very welcomed   March 3, 2018
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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@newmail.ru>

Hi, Aleksej Serdjukov! How are you?
on Friday, 06 of April, I read your messsage to alexander koryagin
about "Program Quoter - you are very welcomed"


 AS> The page says "The autor permits using this version of the program
 AS> freely, providing that the program will not be modified or used for
 AS> commersial purposes."

 AS> First, of course, the language: it should be "author" and
 AS> "commercial".

Yeah, it is fucking Billy's Front Page 2000 must be blamed. ;-) I could
not make it to spell check an English text. It is tuned to Russian and
there is no possibility to swith it into English. Can you imagine it?
Well, my hurry must be blamed, too. Thanks, anyway.

 AS> I can understand not wanting to allow commercial use, although it
 AS> doesn't seem like a practical idea: look at all the free (as in
 AS> "freedom";) software.

When Reformator package is ready in its final form it can be (in
principal) a commerical product, unless I decide to release it as
a freeware product.

 AS> Second, what is the reason for limiting modification?

 AS> If somebody wants to make malware of your program, they can just
 AS> change the MD5 sum in the file (or even make a program with a
 AS> similar user interface from scratch). But if somebody thinks the
 AS> program has a bug, or wants to add a new feature to it, they will
 AS> have to contact you. If you abandon the program, or don't want to
 AS> add the feature, they will be out of luck.

I prohibited modifications, appealing rather to people's conscience. Of
course if a person wants to commit a crime he will commit it. ;-) It is
imposssible to improve this program without the source texts. In the
Reformator package every important function has an empty duplicate. So,
if Reformator package complied as Quoter only, nobody can get access
to other Reformator unilites.

As for the MD5 checking, yes a hacker can put a malware into my program
and distrubute it for instance selling his pirate CDs. But any person
who downloads my program from my site can be sure that it is perfectly
safe. MD5 checking serves for the purpose I declared: it checks the
integrity of the program which can be broken for one or another reason.
In the next modification I'll put into "about box" the URL where anybody
can find the latest version of the Quoter.

 AS> I can also imagine an argument that somebody could change the
 AS> program and publish the binary without publishing the source.
 AS> That's prohibited by copyleft free software licenses like GNU GPL,
 AS> and that's why simply removing copyright restrictions is not a good
 AS> solution to what copyright laws have come to.

So, for a while there is only one way be more or less sure that my
program was not be changed by crooks: download it from my site. Actually
md5 sum is like my signiture.

[...Diseases are the interests of pleasures]
Bye Aleksej!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2012 


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