Path: utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!bbn.com!dnye From: dnye@bbn.com (David Nye) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: PD Disks Summary: How Much is TOO Much ??? Keywords: PD Disks, Money Message-ID: <38833@bbn.COM> Date: 19 Apr 89 01:22:04 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: dnye@mikey.bbn.com (Dave Nye) Followup-To: E-Mail and Comp.sys.amiga Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 63 Hello World. I would like to discuss a subject that greatly disturbs me. On page 73 in the May AMIGA Weird is a ad for Software Excitement public domain programs. They give a listing of the disks that they sell and what is on them. They also give a price of $7.00 per disk, and $5.00 a disk if you purchase 15 or more. On ------------- --------------------------------------- page 95 of the same issue is the AMIGA Weird Public Domain Library. This is a list of several disks for different dealers including Software Excitement, DevWare, Chiron Conceptions, and SYSTEM EYES. These list the disks and the contents and carry a price of $7.00 per disk and $1.00 handling charge. ---------------------------------------- What I am getting to is just this, from what I believe that the following copywrite and distribution instructions means, clipped for the ARP 1.3 read.me; All software, manuals, install programs and associated material are Copyright (c) 1987,88,89 by Arp Authors. All Rights Reserved. The ARP Installation program and accompanying documentation may be freely distributed provided no changes or additions to the materials -------------------------------------------------------------------- are made. --------- AmigaDOS is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Unix is a trademark of AT&T Information Systems. that you can distribute freely all of the programs as long as you do not charge more than the cost of the disk, label, and the miniscule cost of coping the material onto the new disk and postage if the disk is sent to the person asking for the disk. This cost should NEVER come anywhere near $7.00!!! and then to Charge another $1.00 for HANDLING is insane if not illegal. I would like to hear from Steve Tibbett about his opinion on AMIGA Wierd selling his VirusX 1.32 on disk, the only thing on this disk, for $7.00 ! I think he would like to see some of the PROFIT AMIGA Wierd is making on his Great program. This strikes another cord in my complaint, selling these disks with only one or two programs (about 45% full) and charging $7.00 for the disk. If you are distrubuting PD disks you should make every effort to make the disk FULL, such as Fred Fish, Amicus, and our users group does. Any less and you are CLEARLY making a PROFIT at the expence of the programmer who slaved over his program for months or years. I think this is getting out of hand and will very soon kill the Wonderful PD support the AMIGA has enjoyed most of her life. How can we stop this from happening??? The answer is obvious DON'T buy this JUNKWARE from these Sleazy Operators !!!! ANY Comments ??? Just one mans opinion. Dave NYE ps. Flame OFF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = // Dave Nye -- President, Southern New Hampshire AMIGA Users Group = = // dnye@bbn.com dnye%bbn.com@relay.cs.net ...!harvard!bbn!dnye = = \\// BBN, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., My Employers computer, MY opinion.. = ===============================================================================