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>
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Reply-To: tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold)
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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.

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