Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Card Cages and extra serial port support for A500 Message-ID: Date: 27 May 89 06:27:10 GMT References: <2433@van-bc.UUCP> <664@madnix.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 30 In-reply-to: perry@madnix.UUCP's message of 25 May 89 03:59:14 GMT In article <664@madnix.UUCP> perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes: You want my software for free? Right. You're typical of what's wrong with the Amiga market. This ain't no damn 64. Grow up. I believe you've got the situation reversed. On the 64, there wasn't anything nearly as useful as the equivalent of a serial port driver in the public domain. The Amiga, on the other hand, would die without public domain/shareware/freeware. (The only reason the 64 is around still, I think, is 'cause kids tell their friends "Buy a 64 and I'll let you copy my 5,000 disks full of games!") But in any case, I don't believe he was asking you for a complimentary copy of your software, was he? (1) it probably wouldn't work with his hardware project, and (2) if it did, he wouldn't be asking *you* for it. No need to get so defensive; the only reason I've ever heard of your company is because I used your recoverable ram disk for a year or so. With that kind of track record, I'm surprised to see you putting down freely-redistributable stuff as you are..... as it happens, there'd have to be some pretty damned stiff and reputable competition before I even considered anything but the ASDG serial board, assuming I were to go insane and decide to put up a multi-line BBS. Ditto for the scanner package. -- Robert Jude Kudla Pi-Rho America \\ /// 1989 New York Gay Pride Parade: 25 June 1989 2346 15th St. \\ /// 20th Anniversary of Stonewall Riots BE THERE! Troy, NY 12180 /X\ \\\/// keywords: mike oldfield yes u2 r.e.m. new order (518)271-8624 // \\ \XX/ steely dan f.g.t.h. kate bush .....and even Rush "It's not disco.... it's the traditional folk music of my people!" -Me