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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: ftp'ing from expo
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Date: 3 Jun 88 12:24:00 GMT
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    Date: 31 May 88 21:50:28 GMT
    From: trwrb!aero!venera.isi.edu!raveling@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Paul Raveling)

    I question whether it's appropriate for the X Consortium
    to discourage public domain distribution of X.

(Most of it isn't public domain :-) We are hardly discouraging it.  I
think we go to considerable effort to encourage it.  We're simply asking
you to cooperate in making our working hours more productive.

    Wouldn't it be more appropriate to attempt to support
    the ability of X users to import software during their
    own working hours?

We ask for cooperation.  If you can't supply it or refuse to try, ftp
whenever you can.  We're not likely to blow away ftp connections (too
often).

    Would it help to direct part of the X Consortium's revenue
    toward purchase of disk capacity to keep X at additional
    cooperating sites?

It might help, but it won't happen.  There are a few thousand other
things that such money would be better spent on.