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From: steve@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Your articles sold for cash.
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Date: 31 Jul 90 23:45:02 GMT
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tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
>
>This is part of an ad that appears in Program Now, a UK based
>programming magazine:
>
>MINIX
>
>Run a Unix Type System
>For only $87.75
>
>A unix type multi-tasking, multi-user system that will run on IBM clones
>or Atari ST.
>
>Including printouts and patches from USENET.
>
>
>The Minix Centre 
>Forncett-End Nr Norwich Norfolk.
>
>
>	Several things disturb me about this. Firstly does this company
>have permission from Prentice Hall for what they are doing?
>Secondly they are selling the contents of this newsgroup for profit. The
>trouble is I don't see any way to stop them.
>	Tony

Assuming the company is selling legal copies of Minix, I don't see what
there is to get exercised about. Including the contents of this newsgroup
is a helpful and positive move. It takes nothing away from anyone who
reads or posts here.
 
I don't see any complaints that the phone company makes money or the packet
networks make money or the pay BBSes make money or the universities make
money. It puzzles me when someone objects to further dissemination of free
information on the basis that somebody might find their balance sheet enhanced
by the process.
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 steve@thelake.mn.org