Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!rutgers!bellcore!wind!tr From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: Re: Here it is -- CHAT V1.7 Summary: I concede the point! Message-ID: <4361@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 18 Dec 87 13:19:47 GMT References: <417@ddsw1.UUCP> <262@papaya.bbn.com> <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> <3314@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Reply-To: tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, Noo Joizy Lines: 34 In article <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> I write: $ If you want to plug the software you distribute, then why do you want $ to question the morality of software with the same function? Just $ because it is shareware doesn't it make it more wasteful of modems $ and phone bills. Besides, not everyone logged in to systems are in $ through phone lines. And then, in article <3314@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bob Sutterfield writes: $ The complaint doesn't concern single users' dialup (or whatever) $ access to the system on which they will run the software; nor with $ people distributing new software that performs the same function as $ existing function; nor even with the author asking for money for the $ new software. $ $ Rather the complaint is with author's use of many other sites' $ (sometimes expensive) UUCP phone links and /usr/spool disk space to $ distribute the software from which he hopes to reap financial gain. $ Though that may be the custom on other networks, it is not considered $ kosher in Usenet-land. $ $ For example, the fact that our site feeds and is fed alt.* does not $ tacitly imply that the State of Ohio wishes to support software $ development efforts at a company in Illinois. Ok, I get it now. And now that you point it out to me that way, I agree 100%. And I sent a message to this effect to Rich Salz, the person who posted the original objection. Tom Reingold INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research UUCP: rutgers!bellcore!tr 435 South St room 2L350 SOUNDNET: (201) 829-4622 [work] Morristown, NJ 07960 (201) 287-2345 [home]