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From: dnye@bbn.com (David Nye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD Disks
Keywords: PD Disks, Money
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Date: 21 Apr 89 03:27:39 GMT
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In article <99856@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>If you think you can make a profit selling PD disks for $7.00 or less
>then you should go for it. In fact you would have a hard time doing so.
>That isn't to say that you couldn't get back more money than you spent
>on supplies, just that when you figured in stuff like wear on your Amiga,
>time spent running to the post office, etc etc you will find yourself making
>minimum wage or less. That doesn't count as profit. You are in fact subsidizing
>the distribution from the donation of your time.

   That's just the point, PD is suposed to be non-profit by definition.  These
companies are trying to make a profit by selling the disks not as a SERVICE to
the AMIGA community, such as Fred FISH, but for profit.  I can not blame them
for wanting to make a profit, but PD, by definition, should only FREELY
distributed, not SOLD for PROFIT at the expence of Joe Programmer who was
gracious enough to put his program into the public domain.   The companies
should stay out of the PD distribution game or at least not let there prices
creep up from $3.00 last year to $8.00 this year.
    Chuck,
	I think this is a serious issue and from the E-Mail response I've
gotten MANY other people think so also.  
>
>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.

Dave Nye ---
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