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           OREM, Utah " October 5, 1993 " WordPerfect Corporation today announced that it
has settled lawsuits against a bulletin board operator and beta tester who illegally copied
and distributed beta versions of its new word processor, WordPerfect 6.0.
                  The software was first found on an electronic bulletin board called California
Dreamin located in Toronto. It was then traced to a beta tester in Texas.
                  Under court authority, U.S. Marshals and Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
together with company representatives, confiscated computer equipment and
unauthorized copies of the program from the electronic bulletin board operator and
from the beta test site.
                  WordPerfect Corporation is serious about protecting the confidentiality of its beta
level software, and will prosecute beta testers who violate our trust and bulletin board
operators who pirate our software, said R. Duff Thompson, senior vice president and
general counsel at WordPerfect Corporation. The beta test program is crucial to our
ability to produce high quality software products; we are determined to protect the
integrity of the program. As far as the bulletin board is concerned, we simply caught asoftware pirate redhanded.
                  Although this is WordPerfect Corporations first direct action against a beta tester,
the company has previously taken actions against pirate bulletin boards through the
Business Software Alliance (BSA) of which WordPerfect Corporation is a founding
member.
                  Our copyright enforcement activities are conducted principally by the BSA;
although these cases were brought directly by WordPerfect Corporation because of our
contractual relationship with the beta tester, said Thompson.
                  The BSA estimates a $1.9 billion U.S. loss in software sales in 1992 as a result of
piracy with that figure reaching $5.4 billion worldwide. Software piracy continues to
pose the single largest threat to the ongoing success of the legitimate software market in
the United States and abroad, said BSA President Robert Holleyman. 
                       The BSA, a Washington, D.C.based organization, is active in over 30 countries in
North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Its worldwide members include
Aldus, Apple Computer, Autodesk, Borland, GO Corp., Computer Associates, Lotus
Development, Microsoft, Novell, and WordPerfect Corporation. To report incidents of
software piracy or to request information on the protection of computer software call
WordPerfect Corporations piracy hotline (801) 2224449 or the BSA hotline (202) 6882721 or write BSA, 2001 L Street N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036.
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