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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: MS-Kermit 3.14: BegWare?
Message-Id: <D2pqyL.HFL@telly.on.ca>
Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit
Organization: Sound Software Ltd., Brampton, Ontario
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 16:54:21 GMT
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In article <3f6k1k$i58@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 communications software for DOS and Windows was
>released on January 12, 1995.
>Version 3.14 is available via anonymous ftp from kermit.columbia.edu
And then...
>BBS operators are asked NOT to put the MS-DOS Kermit software on their
>BBSs for downloading by their users,
Wonderful.
It's OK to download Kermit from an ftp site, but not a BBS.
I'm sorry, but the policies of Columbia's Kermit projects are
degenerating into what can only be described as total illogic.
This policy is bigoted against those who can least afford to
pay for Kermit (BBS use is cheaper than Internet access). It
exhibits an ivory tower snobbery that doesn't pressure "research"
users to buy the book, but does so to others whose only sin is
not to be Internet-savvy.
I'm sorry, but as one who contributed to the Kermit effort from back in
the days when the only distribution was nine-inch tapes and the only
docs were ten-pound boxes of printed sheets, I resent this policy and
the attitude it represents. (I neither run nor use a BBS.)
This has nothing to do with the technical excellence of the product and
my lasting gratitude to all to have contributed. But IMO this policy
transcends FreeWare and ShareWare, and can best be described as
"BegWare".
First no CD-ROMs and now this. Please reconsider.
--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
Novell Unix Master Reseller / evan@telly.on.ca / (905) 452-0504
A happy traveller on the information sidewalk