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From: mms@sordid.Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Summary: Post everything useful, even if it's shareware
Message-ID: <95136@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 18:51:53 GMT
References: <6236@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2979@looking.UUCP>
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Reply-To: mms@sun.UUCP (Michael Silverstein)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <2979@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
*> 
*> 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.
*> 

Exactly right.

The moderator should assess the utility of the software, and post it
accordingly, in conformance with the copyright.

Proper payment is the responsibility of the individual receiving and/
or using it, not the net or the moderator.

Whether it's a giveaway, a profit maker, or anything else should not
concern us.

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