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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Binaries/Shareware
Message-ID: <922@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 21:40:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: maynard.922
Posted: Tue May 26 21:40:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 06:07:46 EDT
References: <315@pcrat.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Lines: 17
Keywords: Expensive Inconsiderate Chauvinistic
Summary: Stamp out binaries!

In article <315@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) gripes about:

>	1) A REPOST of
>	2) A UUENCODED, BINARY copy of
>	3) A SHAREWARE program (ARC520), which
>	4) You can get on nearly any local RBBS

I agree.  I, also, was annoyed to have spent real money and tied up valuable
disk space for binaries for a machine I don't even own, and even if I did
it wouldn't be running the "operating system" (I'm using the term *very*
loosely) for which the aforementioned program was intended.

Please let's keep binaries off the net.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM          120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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