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From: bhv@igloo.Scum.COM (Bronis Vidugiris)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZMODEM
Message-ID: <1186@igloo.Scum.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 89 13:20:36 GMT
References: <4700@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <5769@homxc.UUCP>
Reply-To: bhv@igloo.UUCP (Bronis Vidugiris)
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In article <5769@homxc.UUCP] marty@homxc.UUCP (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
]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.

I think you are missing the _entire_ point of my article.  I am quite able
to make my own personal decisions about both the legal AND the ethical
importance of paying for shareware.  I do not need your advice on this
matter.  Having already made my own personal decision on the matter
(and, if I were truly unconcerened with the ethical implications, as you
seem to imply with your postings, I would not have bothered to post), I have
decided that my own sense of ethics can best be satisfied by seeking a
public domain source for what I believe to be a public domain protocol
which was developed for pay.  Now, it is possible that I am incorrect about
ZMODEM being a public domain protocol - though I sincerely believe that
to be the case.  It is definitely the case, though, that the original 
development of ZMODEM was funded by Telenet (see the February issue of
Byte).

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bhv@igloo