From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: public domain software control Article-I.D.: ucb.1580 Posted: Fri Jul 23 18:48:40 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 06:28:05 1982 >From decvax!duke!uok!uokvax!mwm@Ucb-C70 Fri Jul 23 18:48:28 1982 In addition to what lauren pointed at, let's take the case that apparently caused a lot of flack: the reselling of various versions of Ron Cain's small C compiler. In most cases, the resellers have taken the compiler, extended it, and are reselling the result. These people want to be paid for that work, and I can't say that I blame them. Especially those who credit Ron (which some do in their advertising). An analogous situation exists for software that you pay for. If you've looked into getting source to one of the OEM Eunices, you here things like "Well, we want $6000 for it, and we can only sell it if you already have a Western source license." Once again, these people want to get paid for there work. Since they started with something they paid for, nobody bitches. I don't see that what they are doing is all that different from what is being done to public domain software. mike