Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 14:44:08 GMT References: <455@hal.CSS.GOV> <1990Sep7.144544.17517@uncecs.edu> <12542@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <2072@nyx.UUCP> <12058@ogicse.ogi.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu's message of 12 Sep 90 00:36:59 GMT In article <12058@ogicse.ogi.edu> jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Meissen) writes: 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. I basically agree with you, but I know I've seen packages go by that had restrictions, along with exemptions for Fred Fish. I also had a package that I was going to submit (never happened because the other fellow was to busy to provide what I needed from him) that would have been restricted to being distributed only via the Fish disks. The reasons had to do with not wanting adultrated copies running around, and worries about loss of copyright (all of which were caused by the same other guy). 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. I agree. They are doing the Amiga community a service; anyone taking legal action to get them to stop is doing the Amiga community a disservice.