Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <2979@looking.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 17:35:50 GMT
References: <6236@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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As many of you know this debate is going on (in a nastier way) in other
parts of the net.  I think the principle is very simple.

It should be posted if net readers and admins benefit more than the cost
of posting it.   How much the author of the software benefits, from 0
to a megabuck, is not important.  Do net people want it -- that is the
only question to ask.

The only complication on this issue is whether we should consider whether
the benefit of the net people will be legal/moral or not.  In this
case, the consent of the shareware authors does matter.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473