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From: shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu (Tim Shoppa)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 95 version
Date: 11 Sep 1995 22:05:35 GMT
Organization: Kellogg Radiation Lab, Caltech
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In article <431ght$fp@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>That does not solve the entire problem. Tech support is only one of our
>burdens. There is also development, documentation, ftp site management,
>business management, and on and on. In any case, the world has proven
>to us that when it has a choice of getting something free or paying
>for it, "free" wins every time.
Not necessarily. I've done some work at some sites that
have an explicit policy: only fully licensed software can be run
on their PC's. A license for *every* piece of software on each PC
must be in the legal office. Freeware, shareware, or anything
that isn't purchased isn't allowed.
There are at least two reasons for this policy:
1. The lawyers wanted it. This makes perfect sense, in light of
the lawsuit that Microsoft, etc. would launch against a large company
if it was found running dozens of unlicensed copies of Word, Excel, etc.
2. System administration likes it. They only have to support
(or pretend to support) a small number of packages. And they don't
have their users installing all sorts of widgets and hacks that
wreak havoc with keeping hundreds of PC's running.
But as a result of this policy, I wasn't allowed to use MS-DOS
Kermit at several sites. And let me tell you - the sorry excuse
for a terminal emulator I had to run made my life miserable. How the
f**k do these people get away with calling these things terminal
emulators? I swear the writers of these crummy emulators must've never
seen a real VT100.
So I have one suggestion for Frank, or whoever actually packages up
Windows-95 Kermit: please include a version of MS-DOS kermit which
(by default) gets installed along with the Windows-95 version. Then
it will at least be possible to buy Windows-95 Kermit as a way of getting
MS-DOS Kermit to sites which have extremely restrictive software
policies.
Tim. (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu)