Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!isis!nyx!bscott From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised Summary: Copyright issues Message-ID: <2072@nyx.UUCP> Date: 11 Sep 90 21:33:57 GMT References: <455@hal.CSS.GOV> <1990Sep7.144544.17517@uncecs.edu> <12542@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Distribution: comp Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver Lines: 32 In article <12542@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >As far as I am concerned, it seems that the price for the drive is so >reasonable that the CD is being included as an incentive to buy, and not >being sold for profit. I have no problems with this release. The key, in my understanding, to whether they could be considered to be selling it for profit or not is whether it is available from them separately. It is like the sweepstakes laws - you can't make someone buy anything to enter a sweepstakes, so you always have to provide an address they can write to or something which will get them the entry form without buying the whatever it is. They may put it in microscopic print but it has to be there someplace. Same deal with Xetec - they may not be advertising the availability of the Fish disk separately (understandable considering the small number of Amiga CD ROM systems out so far) but if they are not offering it separately at all (for "reasonable cost of duplication" etc.) it is the same as selling it. Question: it is my understanding that these systems are sold "complete", as in packaged with a SCSI interface. I don't suppose Xetec sells them without an interface? Too much to ask. But it would be annoing to have to buy another SCSI interface if you already have one... unless, of course, their drive does not conform to any known existing spec on the Amiga... NAAAH - never happen, eh? . <<<>>> -- .---------------------------------------------------------------------------. |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Amiga UUCP node domain: bscott@vila.denver.co.us Else: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu| |FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-9831| |"Don't embarrass us..." "Have I ever?" - Buckaroo Banzai | *AMIGA POWER* | `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'