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From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 version
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jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>hounsell@cc.joensuu.fi (Paul Hounsell) writes:
>> I really wish the developers would re-consider about doing a
>>true GUI version of kermit that could be ported to Windows.
>See today's KERMIT news from Frank da Cruz: Kermit 95 will be out later
>this year. That's the good news; the bad news is that it won't be freeware
>like the older KERMIT packages from Columbia. Frank estimated the street
>price to be US$54; bulk, site, and academic pricing is being worked out.
>I don't really like having to pay for it (or anything else, for that
>matter) but it's difficult to argue with Frank's quite valid point that
>everybody seems to be using KERMIT and few people are paying Columbia
>anything for it. Idealism is fine, but somehow you've got to get enough
>money to pay the bills. I spent twenty years in academia and I'm too
>painfully aware of funding problems.
All true, and I can see your and Frank's point. I still don't have to like
it though. I think this charging for a version of kermit instead of its
media (such as the kermit tapes available from Columbia) or its documentation
is going to earn KERMIT, Columbia U., and Frank a great deal of ill will in
the user community.
Jeff Berntsen
jeffb@world.std.com