Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!portal!sv!moose From: moose@svc.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Selling Usenet news Message-ID: <1990Dec18.165408.6467@svc.portal.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 16:54:08 GMT References: Organization: Software Venture Lines: 20 In article danr@autodesk.com (Dan Rosenfeld) writes: > >Lighthouse Design is apparently selling an optical disk of various >NeXT-useful stuff, but what caught my attention was the line "It also >includes one year of NeXT-specific Usenet network news ..." >I was wondering how people on the net felt about the possibility that >their contributions to net news discussions could become part of a >commercial product. Has this been discussed before? Considering that half the useful information on this newsgroup comes out of LightHouse Design, It might be argued that they are only selling their own information :->. Seriously, if you look at the price, you will notice that they are probably only breaking even. I would not be surprised to hear they are taking a loss by providing this service. -- Michael Rutman | moose@svc.portal.com Cubist | makes me a NeXT programmer Software Ventures | For Your Eyes Only Public Key