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Re: German CD-ROM (Was: Re: Addressing home-made adapter cards)
- Subject: Re: German CD-ROM (Was: Re: Addressing home-made adapter cards)
- From: rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall)
- Date: 5 Dec 1994 22:04:41 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- References: <1994Dec5.110601.17403@chemabs.uucp> <3bvf80$483r@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Steven Nelson (snelson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
: Technically (and being totally tongue-in-cheek ridiculous), it shouldn't
Actually, this is not ridiculous at all, and I totally agree
with you.
: be on commercial information systems at all. GEnie, AOL, CIS, etc. all
: charge a minimum monthly fee well over $5.00. You have to pay over $5.00
: just to get one file. So, programs such as Richard Wifalls should NOT be
: on Genie, CIS, AOL, or any BBS which charges a fee of over $5.00. It
: should not be on any medium except 5.25 or 3.5 DD or 3.5 HD diskettes.
: Backup tapes, Flopticals, Optical disks, CD-Roms, Hard drives etc. still
: cost over $5.00 apiece and so should never contain such restricted share-
: ware if it is sold to any person!
I totally agree with this. If you were to read the disclaimer
on my software, you would notice that I make exceptions for Commercial
online services.
: And to be serious again, Richard Wifall & others have every right to
: make this restriction.
: We now return to regular csa2 flames ...
: --Steve (steven-nelson@uiowa.edu)
Richard
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