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From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: VIREX University Site License Plan
Keywords: virus site license university student cheap
Message-ID: <210@biar.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 89 06:34:38 GMT
References: <200@biar.UUCP> <2533@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Reply-To: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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In article <2533@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) writes:
>Given the recent flame-war about whether people should or should not be
>posting "mac for sale" advertisements here, I'm surprised anyone had the
>audacity to post an advertisement for their own commercial software 
>package.

Well, excuuuse me.  Let me clue you in as to the background to the above
posting.  About a month ago (before I got my feed, btw), there were several
flames posted on the net about the site license fees for Virex and how
outrageous they were.  They were forwarded to me over another network for
my comments.

I gave it some careful thought and said I would talk to the publisher, HJC,
and see what could be done.  I may be the author of the program, but I don't
have control over the marketing; that is, quite properly, HJC's job.  I
talked to Bob Capon of HJC about the flames, and over a period of about 3
weeks managed to convince him that offering a special deal to universities
would be a good idea.  What I posted was a verbatim copy of the HJC press
release about the offering.

Since it was comments in comp.sys.mac that lead to this policy change, it
seemed likely that c.s.m would be the place where notice of the offer would
reach the very people who would be most interested in it.  It was _only_
because of the prior history of the issue that I posted; I wouldn't have
posted a "Wizardry MCXXIV now available for Mac" message, for example.

So before I was getting flamed (in absentia) for HJC's site license 
policies (which were appropriate for corporations but not for more diffuse
communities like universities), and now I'm getting flamed for 1) getting
the universities a good deal and 2) letting them know.  Sigh.

Would it have made you feel better if I had mailed the press release to
some friends and had them post a note about it?

>Please, don't post this sort of trash.  Comp.sys.mac has enough volume
>already. If you mean USENET, then you are distinctly NOT the "head 
>honch of this here spread."

I hardly think you are so dense as to truly believe that my signature quote
refers to the net as a whole.  I haven't been that egotistical since I
allegedly graduated, oh those many moons ago.
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