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From: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Clarinet and Royalties
Message-ID: <8372@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 15 Jun 89 12:31:58 GMT
References: <18430@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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In article <18430@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> msw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Matt S Wartell) writes:
>What I would like to know what percentage royalties Clarinet Corp. will
>be paying to the authors of the news transport and news reading software.
>

That's really none of your (or my) business, but is strictly between these
authors and Clarinet. But ...

>
>	You may copy this program so long as you don't try to make
>	money off of it...

He isn't. Clarinet does not read news, it sends out news. Who knows which
program Brad will use to post the material? Most likely something more
batch-oriented than rn.

What his SUBSCRIBERS use, on the other hand, to read Clarinet news, is not
Brad's business, nor does he owe royalties on their use of rn, etc.

>I'm sure the b-news and c-news people may feel the same way.
>
>Has Clarinet Corp. written news transport and news reading software from
>scratch?  I doubt it.

Well, to the extent that they use B-News, which carries Rick Adams' copyright,
since Clarinet has made arrangements with Uunet, which is run by Rick, I
am sure he is aware of any issues of concern to him, and a flaming discussion
on the net is really not appropriate.

P.S. How come the "In Moderation" announcement, which proposes to take 
actual USENET news and decide which articles are "worthy" and which are
"trash", and MAKE MONEY FROM THE REDISTRIBUTION of "worthy" articles,
did not raise nearly as much furor as Brad's announcement of a totally
separate network? It seems to me that much of this flamage is based on
the person behind Clarinet rather than on objective reasons.


>-- 
>matt wartell, university of pittsburgh             msw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu


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