mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au writes in article <1992Jul24.005914.48353@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>:
>
> In article <64117@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge) writes:
>
> >Gee Nick, what are you waiting for? :-)
> >
> Probably waiting for advice from the legal department.
>
> Were IBM to start providing access to Freeware, Shareware and
> copylefted software they would have to make all sorts of disclaimers
> about not endorsing or warranting the software stored there.
Give me a break! What is your justification for this statement? After all, NeXT ships the gcc compiler with it's system, and Sun is about to ship it with Solaris 2.0 (albeit as unsupported software). Hardly a disclaimer.
> IBM seems to need to be more careful than most other companies in not
> seeming to favour any other party at the possible expense of others.
Huh?
> In this age of litigation the last thing I would want to see is a case
> of 'I lost income on my Widget Management program because you guys
> didn't put it up on your server'. Stupid yes, but just look at the
> suits that get filed and it's not improbable.
I guess this means that Apple, Sun and any of the other companies
too numerous to mention that maintain anonymous ftp servers for their customers should be quaking in their boots because their lawyers are clearly not on the case.
> I would prefer to see the site used for patches, CSD's, drivers and
> annoucements. We are already well served by ftp-os2 & other
> 'non-interested' parties for other wares.
This is perhaps the most assinine posting I have seen here in weeks.
Why should one poor, overworked machine at NMSU do all the work when
IBM has tons of hardware lying about? The least they could do is
mirror hobbes on an IBM machine somewhere.
> Trevor Lampre
> MIS Unit
^^^^^^^^
No kidding. I'd never have guessed.
> Flinders University of South Australia
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