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From: dkovar@lf-server-2.BBN.COM (David Kovar)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Here it is -- CHAT V1.7
Message-ID: <386@morningdew.BBN.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 87 19:20:20 GMT
References: <417@ddsw1.UUCP> <262@papaya.bbn.com> <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: dkovar@morningdew.BBN.COM (David Kovar)
Organization: BBN Communications Corp., Cambridge, MA
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In article <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
>In article <262@papaya.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>$ Guess the author(s) have no conscience, or they'd be bothered by the
>$ fact that they are using other people's modems and phone bills to make
>$ money.
>$ 
>$ And just to make this posting more than a snipe attack, let me point out
>$ that there are three SysV chat programs in the FREE comp.sources.unix
>$ archives -- via pipes, via fifo's.  Contact your nearest archive site,
>$ or e-mail me for a list of them.
>$ 	/r$
>$ -- 
>$ For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net.
>
>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.
>
>Tom Reingold                    INTERNET:       tr@bellcore.bellcore.com

The point is that someone is making money by distributing software via
USENET. USENET is built on mostly Unix systems talking to each other mostly
by leased or normal phone lines. To transfer the shareware from one
system to another costs someone who is not the author nor the user money.
In effect, the author is getting free a free advertising and distribution
network as other people are paying the cost of those services for him.
This is against the intent, at the very least, of USENET. (And, when it
gets on on ARPANET or MILNET it's *really* against the intent.)


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David C. Kovar                                               DKovar@BBN.COM

  It's fairly obvious that Corwin is around. Corwin will show up when he
is good and ready, and is quite good at hiding otherwise. Searching for
him makes no sense if he doesn't want to be found, and if he wants to be
found he'll surface on his own.
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