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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: FRED FISH CD ROM?
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Date: 3 Aug 90 17:21:01 GMT
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In <90215.224515JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>>> Whole CD's are packed with the greatest bu@@s@@t ever.
>>> Let's hope that that will not happen. Maybe we need to
>>> make a Billboard top 100 software programs CD, where only the best
>>> PD and SHAREWARE software will be found.
>>>
>>> Yes, I am for a FISHCD, but only if it is the best!
>>
>>If Fish makes a CD, the first one should include all the Fish disks to
>>date. That way, we know it has good programs on it.
>
>I also strongly plead that only QUALITY programs go on such a CD.
>
>I disagree that EVERY program off of every fish disk go on it.
>Many disks contain programs that bug-fixes were supplied for in
>later disks.  Why include the earlier versions?  Instead,
>substitute a short note stating that the bug-fixed program
>can be found 10 disks forward.  :-)

The value of a collection of disks is that it _is_ a collection, not a 'partial
collection' wherein someone has made judgements based on _their_ criteria as to
what should/should not be included. It costs no more to put 350 disks on a
CD-ROm than it does to put one disk on it.

I have no objections to a 'best of', but I probably wouldn't bother buying it.

-larry

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