Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (J. Brian Waters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: PD Disks Keywords: PD Disks, Money Message-ID: <6886@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 21 Apr 89 17:10:36 GMT References: <38833@bbn.COM> <99856@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <38944@bbn.COM> Organization: The Binary Bin Lines: 23 In article <38944@bbn.COM>, dnye@bbn.com (David Nye) writes: > That's just the point, PD is suposed to be non-profit by definition. These By whose definition? Yours I take it. The legal one does not say anything about someone not being able to make a profit from PD stuff. If something is in the public domain you are free to do whatever you want with it. No one is sticking a gun to someones head and forcing them to buy the disks. The people that do so want to buy the disks at the offered price. They may be able to find another source of them that is cheaper. This would require them to invest more time to look for the source. Maybe they value the time saved more then the cost of the disks? If you want to you are free to set up a competing business that provides the disks more cheaply. If people do not want the service of the disks at the asking price the company will either have to provide them more cheaply or go out of business. If people do find it worth it to them to buy the PD disk and you don't then what is wrong with that? If the demand is present then what is wrong with it? If the demand is not present then the problem will take care of itself. -- Brian Waters !{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters