Article-I.D.: ism780c.275
Posted: Fri Jan 17 21:29:29 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jan-86 04:06:00 EST
References: <347@ihnet.UUCP> <185@imagen.UUCP> <660@ihlpm.UUCP> <265@ism780c.UUCP> <434@l5.uucp>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
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In article <434@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
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[color=blue]> If the purpose of Megaroids is to advertise a commercial C compiler,[/color]
[color=blue]> why are we paying to distribute it over the net?[/color]
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The point I was making is that Megaroids is freely distributable in
binary, but that the source is not freely distributable, and that there
are legitimate reasons for Megamax to have done it this way.

Note that Megamax did not distribute Megaroids on the USENET, someone else
did.  We are paying to distribute it because someone who had it decided
that it was a reasonable game, and wanted to share it.  I don't think that
the fact that Megamax released it in order to help C compiler sales is
relevant.
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