Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!spdcc!kaos!romkey
From: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re:  nysernet sgmp available to commercial sites
Message-ID: <718@kaos.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 01:23:55 GMT
References: <8803081209.AA08843@LANAI.MCL.UNISYS.COM>
Reply-To: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Organization: Chaos; Somerville, MA
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In article <8803081209.AA08843@LANAI.MCL.UNISYS.COM> perry@MCL.UNISYS.COM (Dennis Perry) writes:
>Marty, I have reservations about the commercial nature of your announcement
>which appeared on the snmp list, many of whom are on the Arpanet.

I didn't think Marty's message was too overtly commercial. I thought that
he was trying to emphasize that the new release was also available for
use by commercial organizations (for use as in, you can put into your
product now) whereas old releases hadn't been before.

Many interesting pieces of software are released nowadays which carry notices
that say they can only be used for nonprofit sorts of things. I read Marty's
message as making it clear that there was a way that software developer's
could license this software if they wanted to. In the case of SGMP (or
SNMP or whatever it's being called these days; I'm afraid I'm kind of behind
on this stuff) it's important to get it out to as many noncommercial and
commercial organizations as possible.
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