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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
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Date: 21 Sep 90 14:50:18 GMT
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c150-ec@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Johnson Sieu) writes:


}  Why don't they sell other stuff on CD besides the Fred Fish?  How about
}  an encyclopeadia or a Thesaurus?

Because most folks are more picky about their copyrights than the Fish
contributors are [or at least, than most of them are].  "An
encyclopaedia" is easy enough to say, but unless the folks at Xetec are
going to start hiring writers and researchers and editors, they're
going to have to find someone ELSE'S encylopaedia to release, and
that'll require paying those other folks for the rights to their
work.  That'll probably be a LOT more up-front money than Xetec is
willing to fork up, and result in a product that is probably a LOT more
expensive than most folk'd be willing to pay for the resulting CD.

  /Bernie\