Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: FEdit 2.1 Message-ID: <121@peora.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 16:39:40 EST Article-I.D.: peora.121 Posted: Sat Mar 2 16:39:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 19:16:37 EST References: <154@tmq.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 11 > I was quite dismayed recently when a version of FEdit 2.1 refused to run > telling me that it was no longer authorized, or something like that. If it is true that such a program was posted to the net, this would seem to be an advertisement, as surely as if one posted a verbal description of the features of a product, then asked for the users to buy it in order to experience it firsthand -- the difference being that the "description" consisted of an opportunity TO see it firsthand (like a participatory TV commercial). It has been my understanding that such advertisements are forbidden on the net; and pushing the definition of "freeware" into this grey area would seem to endanger the ability to distribute it at all.