Xref: utzoo alt.sys.sun:3895 comp.sources.d:6959 alt.cd-rom:567 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!gatech!emory!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sources.d,alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Sun User's Group & COPS Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 04:42:19 GMT References: <97297@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 42 In-Reply-To: voss@cs.uiuc.edu's message of 16 May 91 04:26:08 GMT In article voss@cs.uiuc.edu (Bill Voss) writes: They have already drawn the line "please sign our disclaimer." If SUG wants someone to sign a legal document, the least they can do is give them a gratis (or maybe incremental cost $2) copy. If a package has appeared on the SUG CD-ROM, is it safe to assume that it could appear on other compilation CD-ROMs which are distributed under the same conditions? If a package appears on the tapes that UUNET sells (dumps of their anonymous FTP spool), is it safe to assume that it could be included on the SUG CD-ROM with no further hassle? The SUG CD-ROM (as far as I can tell) has some value added -- you can be reasonably sure that the packages on it are going to be more or less identical to what the author of the package intended, and they are going to work under SunOS. That migth be worth the $2xx they are asking for it, I don't know. I could imagine a person cutting a CD-ROM a month, one which would contain all of the possibly interesting sources from anywhere on the net that were announced or mentioned in the last month. No fancy editing or legal disclaimers beyond the restrictions in the packages (i.e. if they say you can't redistribute, you don't); nothing different from what you would have gotten if you had FTP'd it yourself. How many of these do you have to sell every month to recoup the investment in disk (to store the data) and cutting the CD ROM master? What's the market look like for a "source of the month club", where $xxx up front gets you the next x issues? Inquring minds want to know. (I want to know.) -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216