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From: chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn
Subject: Re: New-ish PD software library for the Archimedes (ADVERT)
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.214410.28411@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 20 Jan 91 21:44:10 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.115259.11830@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <1991Jan17.115259.11830@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:

>If there are any objections to me posting the full list of P.D. disks
>available, then please e-mail me (or post to the Acorn groups - although
>I'd like to see some reasoned argument in there as to why posting a P.D.
>list is bad for everyone's health !). If there are no SENSIBLE objections
>to me posting, then I shall do so in about a week's time.

P.D. has always suggested to me - indeed most P.D. software says - that the
programs in question must be distributed without profit. A cost per disk of
between 2.50 and 7.00 seems fairly profit-oriented, given that disks come as
cheap as 25p each for 100...

I think the main objection to advertising is that it gives companies free
publicity at the cost of the net.administrators - and if they object to
binary postings in "non-binary" groups, then what would happen if the net
were deluged with junk mail and advertisements??? I think it's just best to
keep the risk of such an occurrence at bay, even though a case can be made
for low-budget or small organisations or _real_ P.D. who can't afford to
advertise in the expensive popular media...

Conrad
-- 
"I'd say he's a sadistic, sodomistic necrophile, but that's beating a dead
horse..." - Woody Allen
Disclaimer: Opinions, when given, are my own.