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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZMODEM
Message-ID: <2880@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 89 17:17:04 GMT
References: <4700@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <5769@homxc.UUCP> <1186@igloo.Scum.COM>
Reply-To: vg55611@ihuxy.UUCP (55611-Gopal,V.P.)
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In article <1186@igloo.Scum.COM> bhv@igloo.UUCP (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
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>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).  >bhv@igloo

I'd like to point out that whether DSZ protocol is public domain or not
is irrelevant to the question of whether you should pay for DSZ.  There
seems to be some kind of assumption here that when you pay for DSZ you
are paying for the ZMODEM protocol.  I think this is not true.  You are
paying for the software development effort that went into implemementing
this protocol i.e. you are paying for the code, not the protocol.  There
are other programs that implement ZMODEM, and many other protocols, that
are also shareware, most of these programs are more than just a protocol.

Juz my 2 cents worth.

Venu P. Gopal
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