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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DECUS L&T Public Domain Tools Survey
Keywords: DECUS, Tools, Survey
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Date: 26 Mar 90 18:51:40 GMT
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In article <00373.AA00373@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US> ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) writes:
|Attached is the DECUS Languages & Tools (L&T) Special Interest Group (SIG) 
|Public Domain Working Group Top 30 Tools tools survey ballot.  The L&T
|PDWG is trying to find the most used/favorite non-comercial programs on
|the various computer systems.  Please fill out a ballot and return it to
|DECUS@NIELNAD.DAYTON.OH.US by April 20.  
|
|Ted Nieland
....
|RSX			RT/TSX			FINDER (Macintosh)
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|DECUS C		KERMIT			STUFFIT
|FINGER			______________		KERMIT

About the Mac piece of this survey (I can't speak about any other part):

StuffIt! is NEITHER public domain nor free.  It is shareware.

Much other popular Mac software is NOT public domain, though it may
not have a shareware fee attached to it; authors wish to retain any
rights they are entitled to keep.  Some software, such as BinHex 4.0,
is truly public domain. (I don't know about Kermit.)

If you are really doing a survey of public domain software you must be
clear about what can be on this list.  As you have phrased your query,
I would never have put StuffIt! on my ballot.

	/JBL
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