Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!psysun1.acc.Virginia.EDU!smb3u From: smb3u@psysun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The End of the Big Green Disk? Message-ID: <1991Apr30.122849.20298@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 30 Apr 91 12:28:49 GMT References: <1991Apr26.224809.220@lighthouse.com> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 22 In article bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes: >If you really mean these words about motivation and freedom, set the >software free. Put it up for anonymous ftp. Netters can get it >without costing anyone's time but their own. Non-netters can bug >netters for copies via the grapevine. If a user isn't at least >remotely aware of the net, then they wouldn't be aware of the disk - >hence this is a non-problem. > Give these guys a break, Brian. They have been collecting the programs from ftp sites and republishing them for people who have no access to ftp. I for one feel that they have been providing a greatly needed service at a very reasonably cost while catching a lot of flack from people who feel that they occupy the high moral ground. I would like to thank the people at Lighthouse for this public spirited service to the community. I'm sorry that they feel that they can no longer support the effort, and I hope that someone else will take up the standard. I know that we at Data Transforms can't afford to do it. Steve smb@data.com