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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: painless software distribution (was Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.155605.14311@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <59187@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:56:05 GMT
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- In article <59187@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- > I called Appsoft for a student copy of WriteNow, gave them
- > the credit number in the afternoon, they sent it via NeXT mail and
- > I was using it that night. A fast and painless distribution
- > scheme that says money for everyone - they said its their preferred method.
- >
- > Many companies will send demos that way too
-
- The problem with that, as I'm sure you know, is that not all internet
- sites want to pay for commercial traffic, which is exactly what the
- transactions you described are. Why should other people pay money
- to make it easy for you to receive you private commercial purchases?
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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