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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: gifconverter 2.0 ???
Summary: Just to clarify...
Message-ID: <1759@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 90 19:37:40 GMT
References: <84599@psuecl.bitnet> <1575@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <30355@dhw68k.cts.com>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <30355@dhw68k.cts.com> bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) writes:
:In article <1575@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU: Michael J Kobb writes:
:|  I posted GIFConverter 2.0d12, with the permission of the author, to sumex,
:|and to comp.binaries.mac.  This was several weeks ago, and I have not yet seen
:|it come out.  I wrote to the Sumex moderators, concerned that it had somehow
:|gotten lost, and they replied that they are very backlogged, and that it is
:|probably queued for posting.  I don't know about comp.binaries.mac.  I simply
:|posted it, since I got no replies to my request for info on proper posting
:|etiquette.  That was two weeks ago or so.
:
:By mail, Kevin A. Mitchell <74017.2573@CompuServe.COM: writes: 
:|As the author of GIFConverter, I withdraw my authorization for its
:|posting to USENET. Please do not post this program to
:|comp.binaries.mac. In addition, if the program exists on an archive
:|server (something at sumex?), please remove it or tell me how to
:|contact the administrator to ask its removal.
:
:Thus, you won't be seing GIFConverter posted to comp.binaries.mac...
:
:Sorry.
:-- 
:	Roger L. Long
:	bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com


Just to clarify what happened here:  Kevin withdrew his authorization for
GIFConverter to be posted after all of the flack that people threw up all over
the net about demoware.  In my opinion, this is one hell of a loss for the
USENET community as a whole, since I think that a large number of people would
find the program useful enough to buy it.  Nonetheless, Kevin has every right
to regulate the distribution of his software and to protect his rights as an
author, so if he feels that USENET is currently a hostile climate for demo
software, then it's our loss.

--Mike

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