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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!ddsw1!chinet!dhartung
From: dhartung@chinet.chinet.com (Daniel A. Hartung)
Subject: Re: Time for DOOM to be FreeWare?
Message-ID: <CttBwG.HpH@chinet.chinet.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 16:17:04 GMT
References: <50362.cisco@mhv.net> <CtL3Gy.2xD@beach.silcom.com> <31be99$n9r@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <31be99$n9r@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, Tecumseh <reptile@kaiwan.com> wrote:
>
>: : >Ferrari(?) sports car. Now the immediate thing that came to my mind was
>: : >"When it was clear that Woodstock was a huge success and the promoters
>: : >realized they had made enough money they made it a free concert. Isn't it
>
>The promoters didn't decide they had made enough money. The massive
>crowd busted down fences and invaded. There was nothing that
>security or promoters could do.
In fact, as the Woodstock movie made clear, the promoters (names forgotten,
but hey, *I* wasn't around then) were a) quite high, and b) quite
lackadaisical about the situation. There's an exchange something like:
Q: So this is now a free concert?
A: (promoter grinning from ear to ear) I guess it is.
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