Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The End of the Big Green Disk? Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 04:25:16 GMT Article-I.D.: mcs-serv.SCOTT.91May1232516 References: <1991Apr26.224809.220@lighthouse.com> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: bb@math.ufl.edu's message of 30 Apr 91 01:46:00 GMTLines: 32 In article bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes: In article <1991Apr26.224809.220@lighthouse.com> rjrjr@lighthouse.com (Ray Ryan) writes: > The Big Green Disk ensures the flow of free and shareable software to > those without net access. And saves a tremendous amount of time even > for those who do. We'd like to make sure that access is maintained. 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. I believe that the original motivation was exactly to provide the stuff to non-net-connected people. So far as I can tell, everything on the disk is already out there on the net. The only real differences are that 1) the disk seems to have more than any _single_ site does, and 2) the stuff on the disk is a bit more out-of-date than what you'd get on the net. Other than that, not much difference. [aside - they even state that alot of the stuff is directly dumped source from the net - they've not ported it to the NeXT, though there's no reason it couldn't be. Probably just had extra disk space :-) ] Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Simply press Control-right-Shift while click-dragging the mouse . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."