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From: marty@homxc.UUCP (M.B.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZMODEM
Message-ID: <5769@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 16:18:22 GMT
References: <4700@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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From article <4700@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, by keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson):
> In article <1163@igloo.Scum.COM> bhv@igloo.Scum.COM (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
>>
>>Is there a ZMODEM file transfer program out there that is less 'obnoxious'
>>than the DSZ from Omen that was recently posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc?
> 
> The DSZ transfer protocol is NOT free.  If you are making regular use of
> it you deserve to send your payment to Omen Technologies and pay for what
> you're getting. 
> 
> The only thing "obnoxious" about all this is complaints that people who do
> (good) work shouldn't be paid.

Right.  But if you want to use a whole communications program without
paying for it, instead of just a protocol implementation without paying
for it, be advised that TELIX implements ZMODEM as an internal protocol.

You will be obnoxiously reminded that you're a freeloader only once per
invocation of the comm program, instead of once per upload or download.
You can even make several data connections per reminder.

And (if memory serves me correctly) you will be stealing $35 instead of
$20.  Of course, if you're already stealing a communications program,
that's no big deal; you might wind up stealing less in total than you
are now.

In effect, and possibly also in law, using a shareware program without
paying for it is a copyright violation just like using a pirated copy
of a commercially distributed program.  You get free use and the
coyright owner gets disappointed.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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