From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Selling Public Domain Software Article-I.D.: ucb.1496 Posted: Mon Jul 12 23:59:59 1982 Received: Tue Jul 13 10:23:10 1982 >From BYTE@Mit-Mc Mon Jul 12 23:59:13 1982 I, too, am rather bugged with what's been happening recently. In regards to the software tools that Jerry has been publicizing in his column in BYTE, I would have liked to have seen him mention the alternative of being able to download this software from a number of RCPM systems around the country. I think that publicizing these RCPM systems will serve to put even more software into the public domain. I'm not totally familiar with the Workman disks, so I do have a question that might shed some light: are these disks public domain themselves? If our computer club were to purchase them (as it does the CP/M UG, SIGM, and others), can it distribute them to our members? Something along the same line that bugs me a *LOT* more is the number of people who took the Small-C compiler that Ron Cain put into the public domain, put a few improvements in it, and sell it s their own. A friend bought a compiler that is labeled Copyright Quality Computer Systems. I think it cost around $100, and is nothing more than an enhanced Small-C. It boils down to a matter of cost and ownership. If I release a program that I wrote to public domain, I don't want *ANYONE* making money off of it. Period. I also don't want people to enhance it and call it their own. Period.Roger