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From: krb20699@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Old Beagle Products
Message-ID: <113300172@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 89 10:38:27 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!krb20699    Nov 25 17:48:00 1989


     What would be best if there was a "you can do that, not that, this, but
not that" statement.  That last paragraph says Freeware all over it!  "Give it
to friends" (those specific progs.)  Unless there is another public statement
of Beagle's policy on this point, I would think posting it to a board is the
same as giving it to friends.
     My impression of the comp.sys.apple/info-apple/comp.binaries.apple2 setup
is that it's a group made for people who enjoy the Apple II line, and who are
there to help each other.  Why would a person upload a program to c.bin.a2 for
his/her enemies?  :-)
     I'm not in any way suggesting Beagle is at fault here, all I'm saying is
that the statement in the catalog clearly does not say that you can't upload
to other boards, while people on the net insist that you can't.  As someone
suggested, if Beagle were to post these progs to another slightly more
accessible board, it would be great.  They couldn't get any flack from virus
infected people or other complaints, and people would have a chance at not
calling CA from IL for some ungodly amount.  C.bin.a2 is a tad cheaper, 
considering a lot of people use the net fairly free.
     I personally have no immediate need for the products, and I'm in no
way sure of the demand outside of my own.  But I feel if Beagle really wants
to help the AII community, I would think distributing it a little more widely
would bring more people to these free products, and thereafter to their new
commercial products.  They don't get money for people calling Pro-Beagle LD,
so what's the difference between their moderated board, and a board that they
can upload the programs to, and have the same moderation over those specific
uploads?  None, IMHO: other boards would be in this case the same as mail-
order houses in the commercial case.  Mail order houses seem to be rather
legal.  ;-)

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