Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!dmb From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Publishers Summary: Response from Michal Jaegermann Message-ID: <1991May11.211802.22320@wam.umd.edu> Date: 11 May 91 21:18:02 GMT References: <1991May10.185652.19983@lsuc.on.ca> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: cscwam [I'm posting the following on behalf of Michal Jaegermann , who gets c.s.a.st through a digest. - dmb] Return-Path: NTOMCZAK@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA Received: from vm.ucs.ualberta.ca by cscwam.umd.edu id ; Sat, 11 May 91 16:50:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9105112050.AA14025@cscwam.umd.edu> Received: from VM.UCS.UALBERTA.CA by vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 7998; Sat, 11 May 91 14:50:29 MDT Received: by UALTAVM (Mailer R2.07) id 7997; Sat, 11 May 91 14:50:28 MDT Date: Sat, 11 May 91 14:49:20 MDT From: Michal Jaegermann Posted-By: dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net Jim Omura (lsuc!jimomura) posted recently in c.s.a.s. long diatribe against different forms of software you can find on usenet, different archives and bbs's. He is definitely against stuff where copyright notice is included and somehow managed to convey a feeling that nets are ripping him off. This is exactly the same guy who just annouced that he used copyrighted but free Sozobon C, which he got probably just from that very net, to create a commercial (mildly commercial, mind you, but still) application. He is also quietly forgetting that, apart of original authors, quite a number of people chipped to the software which he is using in by providing libraries, bug fixes, hand-holding, storing, transfering and other form of support. Just to provide a tool he is using and no "STart" would do that, for many diverse reasons. On the top of it, he recently asked on the net for a help. Even if his request really boiled down to "Help me! I don't know how to program." he got this help and even acknowledged this. Therefore I am finding his shrieks somewhat curious, inconsinstent with his actions and a little bit brazen. Maybe he just had a bad day. But why to vent somebodys bad humours all over the world? Michal Jagermann ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca