Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: andrew@eleceng.bradford.ac.uk (Andrew G. Minter) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Your articles sold for cash. Message-ID: <26198@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 31 Jul 90 12:16:38 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.EDU Lines: 47 > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 22:44:44 GMT > From: "Kenneth J. Hendrickson" > > Well, we can (and should) let Prentice Hall know about this. Second, I > will start to put a notice on my postings that they cannot be sold or > re-sold by any party, any time, or any place. This sounds like a good idea and I agree with you. However, all sites here have to pay to receive USENET news, so where exactly do you draw the line. I think I can see where it is, but I don't know how you would tie it up in legal terms. > If this company continues, then I suppose that we could restrict > distribution of our articles, so that they only go to North America, > South America, Asia, Africa, and the continent. Perhaps this would piss > off the Brits enough that they would take legal action against this > company in Great Britain. Please, please don't do this: 1. I'm not at all convinced that these people are doing anything strictly illegal (although I'm disturbed at the prices they seem to be charging for "free" software, especially GNU stuff). 2. I would not get the postings, which would indeed "piss me off". 3. The Minix Centre could almost certainly get the postings by buying a fast modem and spending a little money. One service these people provide is to pass on all the goodies to people, mostly computer amatuers, without network access. While I'm concerned that they may be making a little to much money out of this it would be a shame if the service vanished completely. As an alternative, how about somebody offering to send out postings regularly on floppies for a nominal handling charge? Cheers, Andrew -- ############################################################################## # Andrew G. Minter, # JANET: andrew@brad.eeng # # Lecturer in Information Systems, # EARN/BITNET: andrew@eeng.brad.ac.uk # # Dept. of Electrical Engineering, # # # University of Bradford, # Phone: +44.274.733466 ext 347 or 326 # # Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP # Telex: 51309 UNIBFD G # # United Kingdom # Fax: +44.274.305340 # ##############################################################################