Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

<sigh>

I did look . . .
*
I found a few people who used the goofy phrase in the last sentence of
*this* extract:

Linkname: Dolphin Smalltalk 2.1 Third Party Downloads
URL: http://www.object-arts.com/Downloads/ThirdParty/2.1/Downloads.htm

/\/\

QuickCode - QuickCode.zip(8K) [Updated 13th May 1998]
QuickCode is . . . . is public domain freeware and � Bill Schwab 1997.

\/\/

Australia adds this equally odd construction:

Linkname: Software Copyright Protection Guideline  Commerce and Trade
Western Australia
URL:
http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/dct/oic/ipcdocs/guidelines/guide3-1.html#right
s

/\/\

For example, the owner may give the copyright free, perhaps by declaring in
writing that others may use it without charge, thereby making it public
domain software (freeware).

\/\/

I don't know about you, but it looks to me as if neither of these authors
are quite sure of the issues.

Your preference as I understand it (if I may be so bold) is to use the term
freeware as a superset that includes "copyrighted freeware," and public
domain software that is available for free, both as subsets.

It just seems to me that this nomenclature blurs two dissimilar concepts by
using the price qualifier.  Like categorizing tomatoes and apples as "red
fruit"  (pardon the pun ;-))

But, no matter.  As Humpty said, "there's glory for you."  <g>


"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saafNOSPAM.se> wrote in message
news:8r0e1g$sgd$1@merope.saaf.se...


> OK --- the next time I have enough spare time, I'll look up an equal
> number of web sites which defines freeware as including PD stuff.  I'm
> quite positive it's out there somewhere, and not just in the Jargon file..