To PD, or not PD?
12-Jul-86 10:25:33
Sb: #26349-To PD, or not PD?
Fm: Richard Webb 74005,1265
To: Marlene Zenker 76406,25
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Not at all. While "raids" of the DLs by a competing service may be naughty,
it seems a bit high handed to disallow an individual the authority to send
some useful or imaginative software onwards to another network. A good
program will show up on ( )Link, ( )IX, whatever — it just takes longer. I
give a copy on disk to a friend, from there he passes it on, and a third
party innocently uploads his new find to ( )elphi. Are we each accessories
to the crime of posting a CI$ program onto another network?
As all this was airing out, I had picked up a copy of the graphics version of
Hack from ( )Link. I decided not to upload it here, though; costs to much to
upload that large a file, and I wouldn't want to put CI$'s barriers in the
way of further PD distribution.
'Nuff sai. The grousing we may do in the forum isn't likely to change
network policy, and it takes up valuable message space.