Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!husc6!husc4!dormitzer From: dormitzer@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (paul dormitzer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.games.rogue Subject: Re: Rogue by Epyx Message-ID: <1428@husc6.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 17:04:04 EST Article-I.D.: husc6.1428 Posted: Wed Mar 18 17:04:04 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 01:48:38 EST References: <1465@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <2657@well.UUCP> <433@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> <710@xanth.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: dormitzer@husc4.UUCP (paul dormitzer) Distribution: comp Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 48 Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:2971 rec.games.rogue:148 In article <710@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > >Second, Hack is not "free"; it is shareware. Again, if you want to see more, >you have to LET GO OF SOME MONEY! By releasing Hack as shareware, John A. >Toebes VIII and his friends at the Software Distillery save you between 75% >and 90% of the cost of the same software with the overhead of packaging, >printed documentation, originating company's profit, formal distribution costs, >distributer's profit, retailer's costs, and retailer's profit added in; all >of your money goes to reward the author/adapter, a very cost effective way of >encouraging the production of more high quality, cheap software. Show some >appreciation; send the guys their ten bucks! If you don't, guess what other >source of software for your potential-approaching-certainty paperweight will >quickly dry up. > Excuse me, but sending money to people who are merely modifying others' code is probably one of the most thoughtless things you can do to the original authors of the game, who released it as publilc domain to the net. They weren't asking for money, but requested that all copies sent out had their name kept on it and that no-one else would make money off of it. If these guys are making money by distributing someone else's software, why support them? If they're merely recouping media cost for duplication and duplication time, that's another issue, but no matter how many mods they have made to the program, it still isn't theirs. If you write them and ask for a copy, whatever they charge for their effort is fair, but if you get a copy it from a friend, you might owe that friend, but you owe NOTHING to "The Software Distillary". The following is an extract from READ_ME in the 1.0.2 distribution: Hack was originally written by Jay Fenlason (at lincolnsudbury: 29 East St., Sudbury Mass., 01776) with help from Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome and Jon Payne. . . . Send complaints, bug reports, suggestions for improvements to mcvax!aeb - in real life Andries Brouwer. Each source file in the 1.0.2 distribution starts out as follows: /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */ /* hack.c - version 1.0.2 */ Don't send money to people who are infringing on others' copywright! --- Paul Dormitzer (dormitzer@husc4.harvard.edu)