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From: stevef@aom.bt.co.uk (Steve Fosdick)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: New Kermit Tech Support Policies
Date: 8 Nov 1995 18:39:37 GMT
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Joe Doupnik (jrd@cc.usu.edu) wrote:
> In article <47lsd3$4j6@Mars.mcs.com>, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> > In article <1995Nov5.202002.66006@cc.usu.edu>,
> > Joe Doupnik <jrd@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
> >>You can
> >>give it to them if you arrange with Columbia financially. Because it
> >>(the Columbia Kermits) are being used by you to increase your revenues
> >>and not those of the creators (except when you are one of the creators).
> >
> > It is pretty much irrelevant to my revenues what product they use on
> > the other end. I'd just like to be helpful. And it is annoying that
> > I can't help them get kermit unless they don't need it. If financial
> > arrangements are necessary they might as well use another product. The
> > only real reason I have for wanting kermit on the other end is that
> > I could give out scripts to do what people normally want to do.
Given the intention to supply scripts etc, and given that one of the
arguments against free re-distribution is the support cost bourne by
Columbia, would a reasonable approach be for Les to agree to support
the people to whom he supplies kermit rather than have them call
columbia?
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