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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 95 version
Date: 2 Sep 1995 12:50:13 GMT
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In article <DE93Gn.75H@world.std.com>,
Jeffrey T Berntsen <jeffb@world.std.com> wrote:
>> ...
>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.
>
Well, we had a choice. We can be here and be the brunt of some people's
ill will, or we can be gone. Without making this move, I assure you we
would be gone. Usage has never been higher, tech support demands have
never been higher, ftp accesses have never been higher, Web page accesses
go up every week. But our income has never been lower. And still we get
hundreds of requests for Windows Kermit software every day.
Charging media costs for disks and tapes doesn't work any more -- nobody
is ordering them. They just grab the software off the net or from a CDROM
they bought from somebody else, and then call us to ask how it works.
We are adapting to this new world in order to survive and keep serving you.
- Frank