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From: lauren@Rand-Unix.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: new topic -- software distribution
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 23:20:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 16 23:20:22 1984
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I'd like to open up a new topic for discussion -- that of software
distribution issues.  I'd be extremely interested in people's
opinions as to when the options of:

  a) direct ordering from software sources
or
  b) ordering through distributors

are most desirable -- and in what sort of cases for each.  I'm interested
in this both as a consumer as as a software source -- I need to decide
whether or not to deal with distributers for some of my upcoming releases.
I'm also curious as to how people would feel about receiving software
updates by phone (assuming the appropriate facilities were available)
rather than by disk or tape.  I've heard of attempts to do something
like this, but I never heard how they turned out...

Thanks much.

--Lauren--