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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Keywords: white knight
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Date: 28 Oct 89 16:37:51 GMT
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In article <999@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
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>What denotes commercial use of the net? If its posting upgrade information,
>then Symantec had better stop posting those upgrades out here and letting
>you know whats going on with future updates, to much commercialism..

	I beg your pardon?

	I don't think that the posting of free upgrade patches constitutes
commercial use; especially since (a) the patches are not part of the
mainstream newsgroup, and (b) those upgrades are provided free of charge;
Symantec derives no monetary compensation from the uploading, downloading,
or use of the upgrade patches. Furthermore, (c) the upgrade patches are
directed at current owners of the software packages, and contain no
advertising material, either in the patch itself or in the message
accompanying the upgrade.

	Also we do not "let people know what's going on with future upgrades".
All of the discussion about future features is initiated by users of the
packages, not by Symantec (through me); in fact, it is company policy to
not discuss future feature sets, schedules, or shipping dates.

	You may wish to find another example of "commercial usage" for
your argument.

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
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 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
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"There is no personal problem which cannot be solved by sufficient
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