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- Path: sparky!uunet!ckgp!kanya
- From: kanya@ckgp.UUCP (Jim Kanya)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.intergraph
- Subject: Public Domain Software for Intergraph (Was: Why no response from ...)
- Summary: Systems Operations Sig
- Message-ID: <991@ckgp.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 14:42:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.010857.19092@nuscc.nus.sg> <C0JM72.op@nik.b30.ingr.com>
- Organization: CKGP Assoc. Inc. Birmingham, MI
- Lines: 35
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- First of all, an introduction. I am Jim Kanya and I am the Vice Chairman
- of the System Operations SIG for IGUG (formerly the Unix SIG).
-
- In article <C0JM72.op@nik.b30.ingr.com>, nik@nik.b30.ingr.com (Nik Simpson) writes:
- > I believe the reason we do not offer an ftp site for Intergraph
- > customers are:
-
- We have had many discussions about this in the past and Intergraph has
- refused to be the FTP site. Their reasons were stated by Nik and I
- tend to agree with the reasons. We thought we found a customer willing to
- be an FTP site at last spring's IGUG, but it never panned out.
-
- > If the user group is interested in providing a mechanism for
- > distributing software we could provide large amounts of PD software on a
- > no support basis similar to the XCONTRIB product.
-
- At the Fall of 1992 IGUG, we had discussions about producing a CD-ROM of
- public domain software. I had two ideas on distribution. The first was
- to have have IGUG pay for the CD and present it to each user when they
- register at the conference. This would give the user something tangible
- to take back to the office. The other idea is to sell the CD at the
- conference.
-
- I am awaiting information from Intergraph's Chander Hall about pricing,
- quantity and liability before I make a formal proposal to the IGUG board.
- I do know that the HP User's group has a CD available and sells it for
- $100.00 (US). How many users would purchase a CD for this price?
-
- The first release of the CD('s) would probably be made up of public
- domain software that Intergraph has compiled for its internal use. Later
- of versions of the CD('s) would hopefully have customer donated software.
-
- --
- Thanks,
- Jim Kanya CKGP & Assoc. Inc.
- (313) 642-7970 kanya%ckgp@uunet.UU.NET
-