Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: SLIP from next.com Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 23:41:27 GMT References: <1991Feb14.135510.3693@bernina.ethz.ch> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 41 Nntp-Posting-Host: erick.gac.edu In-reply-to: bob@MorningStar.ComLines: 41 In article , bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > In article <5231@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> news@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU > (Remote news user) writes: > Er folks, it is really uncool to go onto a machine and grab stuff > off unless invited to and then advertise it to the world. It will > make NeXT more paranoid about how it deals with distributing of > software. Regardless of legal issues, it is a questionable > practice. > > If something is confidential then it shouldn't be put in an anonymous > FTP area. If something is accessible via anonymous FTP then it is > generally and reasonably assumed to be freely redistributable under > the terms of any attached copyrights. > > If NeXT or any other company gets paranoid about normal and expected > behavior in a given culture, then they should spend more time learning > what's normal before trying to join that community. The site in question is a private site made availiable for certain NeXT-internal stuff that it would be easier to let people ftp than to mail it to all field personnel and campus consultants. As such, it's a service NeXT provides, albeit indirectly, so that things can be done. If they are forced to remove it, it hampers our ability to help you, and thus gets you in the end. I think the generally accepted etiquette is that if someone makes something availiable _and_then_invites_people_to_access_it_, then they should expect you to come get it. Just because people leave their doors unlocked does not mean it is "normal and expected" behaviour to walk in and steal their silver dinner set. 'Nuff said. Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "Buy `Sweat 'n wit '2 Live Crew'`, a new weight loss program by Richard Simmons . . ."