Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!jabusch From: jabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: 386 advertising on the net Message-ID: <4400128@uiucdcsb> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 20:01:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.4400128 Posted: Thu Nov 7 20:01:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:06:01 EST References: <1839@watdcsu.UUCP> Lines: 38 Nf-ID: #R:watdcsu.UUCP:1839:uiucdcsb:4400128:000:1993 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!jabusch Nov 7 19:01:00 1985 Perhaps the key note here is that this is not net.sources.mac or whatever. There have been many postings here in the past of shareware software developed by people on the net. Some of us have gained a lot by reading this notesfile. I expect to be able to find interesting things in here, and a little hype never hurt anyone, especially when you have the ability to skip the note altogether (my, what these machines won't do today! :). If people don't like shareware in net.mac, fine. Let them gripe. You can bet that for each person who complains, there are several, perhaps more, who will sit quietly and grab the code and put it on their machines and run it, and have the sense not to complain about a good thing. Intel, while not supplying free code, is supplying free information. Perhaps what you object to is that people can learn about some new product that comes from a company that you for some reason despise. Are you afraid that people will buy it and use it and it will become popular? While Intel chips have not been the most popular in the past for many programmers, they have been a big factor in shaping the way we see personaly computing. I prefer to be able to keep up with the expansions in the industry, especially with those advances which will effect us tomorrow. I would like to thank Clif and all who believe in free information. Perhaps, however, in the future, the Intel folks should give the details on the product, leaving out the personal backpatting, and leave it to us out here to pat them instead... (if we approve, of course) I'm sure that approach would reduce the number of flames, and hence some of the more useless traffic on the net.John W. Jabusch Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CSNET: jabusch%uiuc@csnet-relay.ARPA UUCP: {ihnp4,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!jabusch USENET: ...!{pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!jabusch ARPA: jabusch@uiuc.arpa