Re: Joe Solla's objection

Harmon F Seaver (hseaver@csd.uwm.edu)
Sun, 8 Oct 1995 09:17:15 -0500 (CDT)

>'Scuze me, Joe, but Nathan posed the question in the first place -- how
>people could get their hands on the "prizes" without entering the contest.
> If I just made the stuff available to everyone for free, what's the point of
>the contest? (And "available to everyone" means disk duplication, mailing,
>etc. -- the stuff is around 750K, nothing I'd want to download if it were
>offered.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

On the other hand, I download much bigger files weekly. Download about
500K daily just in newsgroups to my offline reader. But, as I said, I see
nothing wrong in selling this stuff, if it's worthwile and people want to
pay for it. I just paid for enhancements to Linux, and that's a totally
public domain OS. Most linux hackers work for free (actually they are doing
some excellent resume building, but that's beside the point) but I have no
problem supporting them by paying for something if it's really good and I
want it. Maybe someone here would like to undertake a port of XyWin or Xy4
to OS/2 and market that, like Dragonfly did with Xy3 and Notabene years
back. Hey, if there's a market for something -- why not? I don't really
understand Joe's objection, I guess.

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