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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: If you want good news software, you'll have to pay for it
Message-ID: <197@looking.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 00:00:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: looking.197
Posted: Sat Oct 20 00:00:00 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:42:00 EDT
Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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With all the noise being raised of late concerning problems with the
net - moderated groups, overload, crazy users, newcomers, bad selectivity -
I would like to remind people that many of these problems are technological
and would be solved a new news system.   Full credit to people like
Matt Glickman and Mark Horton, but they designed this system in 1981 in
their spare time, and don't have the time to support it now.

That's the story with free software.  The price is right but you pay for
what you get.  If people on the net are serious about the price they pay
for reading news, they would commision a commercial, supported netnews
product.  A fee of $100 per site would easily handle this project for
a while with proper cooperation.  Or perhaps $10-$20 per user would be
better.   How many people wouldn't pay $20 to reduce the time wasted
while reading news by even 10%

If this sounds like the old Usenet, Inc. discussion again, I suppose
it has some similarites; but if you don't think software is worth paying
for then why are you a programmer?
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473