home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Columbia Kermit
/
kermit.zip
/
newsgroups
/
misc.19941221-19950208
/
000301_news@columbia.edu_Wed Jan 25 16:36:23 1995.msg
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
2020-01-01
|
2KB
Received: from apakabar.cc.columbia.edu by watsun.cc.columbia.edu with SMTP id AA20349
(5.65c+CU/IDA-1.4.4/HLK for <kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>); Sat, 28 Jan 1995 07:07:22 -0500
Received: by apakabar.cc.columbia.edu id AA06324
(5.65c+CU/IDA-1.4.4/HLK for kermit.misc@watsun); Sat, 28 Jan 1995 07:07:20 -0500
Path: news.columbia.edu!panix!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl4.crl.com!not-for-mail
From: nmiller@crl.com (Norman Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MS-Kermit 3.14: BegWare?
Date: 25 Jan 1995 08:36:23 -0800
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest]
Lines: 23
Message-Id: <3g5um7$isk@crl4.crl.com>
References: <3f6k1k$i58@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <D2pqyL.HFL@telly.on.ca> <3ftvo3$arl@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
Nntp-Posting-Host: crl4.crl.com
Keywords: MS-DOS Kermit
Apparently-To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
In article <3ftvo3$arl@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>The sad fact is that the good old days of subsidized development of free
>software are over. You might find a few people who still do it, but you
>won't find it on an organizational level. Look, for example, at the Free
>Software Foundation. Have you read their literature lately? The rule of
>the 90s is: if you want people to work for you, you have to pay them. The
>Kermit effort, and the FSF (if I may speak for them), are relics from the
>good old days who want to keep a certain non-commercial, open, and
>generous spirit alive, and make some contribution to humanity, but are
>forced by economic circumstances to raise money to cover expenses. If
>millions of people did not use and benefit from our software, we might
>think that we were irrelevant anachronisms who deserved to disappear and
>give way to the voracious market forces of the 90s, but that does not seem
>to be the case. But what is disturbing is the growing attitude that "we"
>(organizations like the Kermit group and the FSF) should work for "you"
>with no compensation.
Eloquent, sad and true. We have to support Kermit by buying its books
just as we have to support PBS with our contributions.
Norman Miller