Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!belltec!dar From: dar@belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Support versus Bug Fixes (Was: Can't backup to floppy) Summary: Wait 'til you get your royalty check on your next book ... Message-ID: <277@belltec.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 02:41:40 GMT References: <913@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS> <425@l5comp.UUCP> <270@belltec.UUCP> <14632@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA Lines: 31 In article <14632@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: > Not only do software outfits shove this kind of thing down your throat, > some have the audacity to try to collect royalties on what you do with > what you've bought or tell you when or where or when you can use it. As > an academic who teaches courses in [Japanese] business history, I've I don't like this sort of thing either (continuing royalties on compiler use, etc), but it *is* their property. Are you going to have the "audacity" to try to tell people what they should do with copies of your next book? How will you feel if someone buys a copy of your book, and then reprints it for commercial sale? How about if some schlock, no-name, non-accredited, advertise-on-the-back-of-a-match-book, correspondance school starts selling video tapes of you doing your Japanese business history thing that were taken by one of *your* students, who duly signed up and attended *your* lectures? Have faith in the free market! Excesses tend to get corrected. Diverse products tend to spring up for diverse needs (CP/M, DOS, OS/2 ....). Dimitri Rotow [Steve Dyer and I have agreed to change places this week for the most continuous followups to related postings. By mutual agreement, we're not cross posting this stuff to comp.unix.xenix no matter how much those "zealots" ( :) to qoute a memorable former posting) might be interested in these grave social matters. Let's keep the flames up high, as I am on vacation next week....] PS -- I really do hate that continuing royalty thing and will never buy such a compiler.