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From: holland@mips.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
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Subject: Re: Change Of Life
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Date: 8 Jan 88 03:33:11 GMT
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Posted: Thu Jan  7 21:33:11 1988

In article <3293@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, saunders@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (kevin eric saunders) writes:
> >     We look forward to continued support (upgrades!!!) on the net. 
> >
> >Brian H. Powell
> 
>     Which brings to mind, why in the name of the Net Gods is a for-profit
> non-shareware software company (THINK) distributing software upgrades 
> across UseNet?  Shouldn't this bring on some profound cosmological
> disturbances, some rumblings from the aether?
> 
> Irritated,
> Kevin Eric Saunders
> ARPA: saunders@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
> ...!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!saunders

It seems the important point is that they did not profit by posting the
upgrade to the net.  I don't see how this is any different from someone
providing help or patches for a commercial program.  I find it honorable
that THINK is passing up the opportunity to profit from an upgrade.  I
have seen others complain about how companies "profit from fixing bugs".
Maybe they'll set a trend...

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.