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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: requests to post zoo
Keywords: ZOO COPYRIGHT
Message-ID: <802@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 15:02:32 GMT
References: <3668@bsu-cs.UUCP> <521@irs3.UUCP> <3757@bsu-cs.UUCP> <522@irs3.UUCP> <3839@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <3839@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
...The reason why I chose $8.00/hour as a reasonable maximum rate for
...online distribution was because there were some services (People/Link,
...GEnie) at around $5/hour and there were some (BIX, CompuServe, The
...Source) at about $12-15/hour.  If I had to set a limit at all, it had
...to fall in between these two clusterings to have any real meaning.  It
...used to be $7/hour, but I bumped it up to make sure that nobody would
...have to distribute the software at a loss.  (Recently, another type of

CIS offers 300 bps connection at $6/hour.  Could they have ZOO available
for people who are willing to download it at that speed and still meet
your criteria?  

...$8/hour or less.  Perhaps what you meant was that CompuServe, BIX, The
...Source, whoever, choose not to follow these two requirements.  I'm not

Rahul, that's silly.  Why should CIS change its rate structure just to
be able to distibute ZOO?  It certainly seems like the $8/hour
restriction is intended to favor GEnie.