Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Question!
Summary: master of controversy
Message-ID: <1478@electro.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 07:17:31 GMT
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Branch Always Software, Kitchener, Ont. CANADA
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hmmm. i seem to have created yet another controversy over trying to post
the Quick ST II demo code to comp.binaries.atari.st. Soooo, i want to get
some feedback from net people on a couple of things:

1 - Branch Always Software *ALWAYS* will post a demo of our latest stuff
	on ALL online services (Compuserve, BIX, GEnie) and we feel (or at
	least I do) that people on Usenet who don't have access to the above
	online services (ie: most Europeans) benifit from having the demos
	posted to comp.binaries.atari.st as well

2 - we will NOT make a special demo version just for Usenet. One is plenty
	to worry about for later bug reports, etc. we just simply do not have
	the time to do things specially for Usenet.

3 - because they are demos of commercial products, we put as must notice into
	the demo to give people ABSOLUTELY no doubt that the stuff is not 
	shareware and is indeed commercial. We feel that this is hardly any 
	different than large shareware notices. And let's face it folks, Branch
	Always Software is HARDLY on the scale of Apple or Microsoft or even
	lowly Atari for that matter when it comes to commercial sales. 
	Shareware simply became too large to keep under the 
	table, so going commercial makes our
	stuff that much more legitimate, (and keeps us out of trouble with 
	government auditors, etc :-)  (this point is equally valid for 
	small companies such as Double Click, etc in the Atari world) 
	(and this way, the author of Turbo ST can't yell at us for being
	"unfair competition" as he said when we were shareware.) 

	so, the questions i ask are:

Do you Usenet folks feel that the posting of our demos of our products here
is a worthwhile endevour, or should we stop?

Are Usenet folks REALLY care all that much if a commercial endorsement is
made in the demo??

if the responses are in favour of absolutely no commercial
stuff on Usenet, then i guess there's no point but to leave Usenet out
on future postings of demos, etc. And i think that in such a small 
userbase, that would be a damn shame!

(and hell, why should Compuserve, GEnie and BIX get all the good stuff
anyways?????)

comments/responses/flames/praise/beratings/humble opinions/blathering/etc
accepted free of charge!

-- 
=====Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)=====watmath!watcgl!electro!brasoft!ignac======
     co-author of QuickST, and the entire line of Quick Software!!!!
  Branch Always Software Box 2624, Station B, Kitchener, Ont. CANADA N2H 6N2
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