Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pyrdc!netxcom!netxdev!ewiles From: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Message-ID: <2975@netxcom.DHL.COM> Date: 16 Jan 90 18:06:08 GMT References: <2930@netxcom.DHL.COM> <15530@well.UUCP> Sender: news@netxcom.DHL.COM Reply-To: ewiles@netxdev.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc. Lines: 53 In article <15530@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: >In the referenced message, ewiles@netxdev.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) wrote: >} By analogy, consider the broadcasts of the National Football League >} in the U.S.A. Each such broadcast, at some point in it, contains a >} statement that you cannot rebroadcast, or otherwise use it without >} permission to do so. > >Does the N.F.L. require that viewers pay for these non-requested broadcasts? As a matter of fact, YES! As follows: Who pays for the rights to broadcast the game? The network. Who pays the network back for the cost of the game, plus the broadcast costs? The advertisers. Who pays for the advertising? The people who buy the products advertised. You aren't even given a choice! If you buy the products advertised, then you're certainly paying for the show, whether you choose to watch it or not! At least with shareware the 'broadcast costs' are small, and if you don't like the product you don't have to pay for it! Baring the broadcast costs, which I've already stated I wouldn't mind if you billed the authors for. I've also stated that it's highly likely that the transport costs incurred by any one site (which is all any one site could charge back to the author) are so small that it would cost far more than the transport costs to recoup such costs. Consider the *small* amount of money you pay for transport of shareware a service to the community by way of keeping software costs down to the point that people can afford it. Would YOU begrudge a few cents for this?!?! I don't! If you DO begrudge the transport costs for shareware, then DO WHAT I SUGGESTED IN MY MESSAGE! Help the network to gather shareware into one or two groups which can then be carried, or not, as sites choose! BE USEFUL INSTEAD OF NITPICKING! >Is there an epidemic of cluelessness going around? It certainly seems so.... "Who?... Me?... WHAT opinions?!?" | Edwin Wiles Schedule: (n.) An ever changing nightmare. | NetExpress, Inc. ...!{hadron,sundc,pyrdc,uunet}!netxcom!ewiles | 1953 Gallows Rd. Suite 300 ewiles@iad-nxe.global-mis.DHL.COM | Vienna, VA 22182