Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ogicse!jmeissen From: jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Meissen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised Message-ID: <12058@ogicse.ogi.edu> Date: 12 Sep 90 00:36:59 GMT References: <455@hal.CSS.GOV> <1990Sep7.144544.17517@uncecs.edu> <12542@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <2072@nyx.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR Lines: 28 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >.......... I wouldn't be surprised to find that Xetec is violating >those restictions, even if they aren't violating the "no commercial >sale" clauses. Two points: 1. The whole point of the Fish collection is to provide an organized distribution of PD, ShareWare, FreeWare, etc., software. If people didn't want their stuff to have wide distribution they wouldn't have given it to Fred in the first place. It doesn't make any sense to restrict free distribution to Fred. 2. If you tell Xetec you DON'T want the Fish CD-ROM and they still charge you $599, then they are NOT selling the disc for profit. Plus, they aren't offering a collection of software originally found on the Fish discs, but rather they are offering the Fish discs themselves on CD-ROM, which I think maintains at least the spirit of the collection. Personally, I applaud Xetec, and hope that they make the CD-ROM available seperately for a reasonable price (less than $50). I don't understand why everyone feels the need to pick on them for putting into practice what everyone else could only talk about. -- John Meissen .............................. Oregon Advanced Computing Institute jmeissen@oacis.org (Internet) | "That's the remarkable thing about life; ..!sequent!oacis!jmeissen (UUCP) | things are never so bad that they can't jmeissen (BIX) | get worse." - Calvin & Hobbes