Re: What's It All About, Ian?

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <CCsA81.FsK@news.iastate.edu>, irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
|> In article <266s20INNm7m@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes:
|> >
|> >Ian, I think we have a classic "is the glass half full or half empty" here.
|> 
|> [huge amount of garbage deleted]
|> 
|> No, we have a classic "freeware and shareware are the same thing" here, an
|> attitude I truly detest.  You totally missed my point.

I said no such thing.  I simply made the analogy of "freeware" being sold and
distributed at or near the cost of the media.  Think of Joe Kohn as a software
developer.  His software, or intellectual property, happens to be written in
English rather than 65816 opcodes, but he is as much an expert at his craft as
Burger Bill is at his.  For him to sell his product so cheaply is tantamount to
making it "freeware," or better.  Even if much of it is available from other
sources, I really doubt that you will ever find such a convenient and accurate
compilation of current Apple II information anywhere else.  SSII is a value-
added service just by collecting the information in one place and verifying it,
even if it NEVER says anything new.

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