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From: rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community.
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.231451.422@ameristar>
Date: 5 Jun 90 23:14:51 GMT
References: <20930@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990Jun3.163532.12083@ameristar> <MWM.90Jun4115553@raven.pa.dec.com>
Organization: Ameristar Technology, Inc
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In article <MWM.90Jun4115553@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes:
>In article <1990Jun3.163532.12083@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>
>	   In summary: the "right" thing is to distribute significant works and
>	   all clone works commercially.  Right for you, right for the user 
>	   community, right for the machine itself.   And hell, it is
>	   considerate of other people too.  
>
>Ok, I'll quit releasing stuff PD, and start releasing it
>commerciallty. I'll even split the profits 60/40 with you. All you
>have to do is cover all the expenses of going commercial, and the
>difference between my 60% and my current salary. Oh - and my wife's
>salary, as she'll be doing documentation for me instead of MIPS.
>That'll save you money over just hiring someone to do the
>documentation.

	Sorry, I'll pass Mike.  If you're serious, you might try
	contacting some house that specializes in Amiga software
	publishing, eg OXXI.  If you go the publisher route the costs
	you will assume will be less - talk to people on the network
	who have done this.

>Or are you not interested? I don't blame you. I don't think it's worth
>going through that expense & risk for 100%; why should you for 40%. On
>the other hand, you also don't have any business dictating what's
>"right" for me to do with the product of my labor.

	I'm *suggesting* the right thing to do, not dictating.  You're
	overreacting.  Too much Dr Pepper this week?

>Remember, much of the PD work floating around is _not_ the result of
>someone deciding they wanted to make money. It's the result of someone
>saying "I need an X", and discovering that the X's available were
>either inadequate or overpriced. So they write an X that's adequate
		      ^^^^^^^^^^

	Ah, you said the "O" word.  Defend "overpriced", please.

>well as the problems of actually shipping it; 2) ship it out as
>freeware in some form, which is what you're objecting to; 3) not ever
>let anyone else see it - which is a perversion of hacker nature.

	If you read my earlier comments closely, you'll see that
	I confined my comments to HackerDudes reinventing commercially
	available products, mostly out of motivation that the commercial
	software "costs too much".

>	<mike

					Rick