turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (04/22/87)
Since i STRONGLY believe in the net as an anarchy, i will approach
this in a democratic manner (:-). I was given a version of APL68000
(the APL programming language from Ken Iverson and IBM)
binaries and assorted workspaces with the )save function disabled. In
other words you can play with it all you want but you can't save
your work. The question is should i post it to comp.*.atari.st?
My personal opinion is that a demo only version of a program is a
thinly disguised advertisement for the product and violates the
non-commercial nature of the net, but i will bow to popular opinion.
please email your votes to me (imagen!turner)
thanks
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In article <1137@imagen.UUCP> turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) writes: > >My personal opinion is that a demo only version of a program is a >thinly disguised advertisement for the product and violates the >non-commercial nature of the net, but i will bow to popular opinion. >please email your votes to me (imagen!turner) This is *not* a non-commercial net. Of course, neither is it a commercial net. It's not an anything net. The criteria on this net is simply, "what are the owners of the net willing to pay to have transmitted?" If people want to see product announcements and demo versions, which they do (mod.newprod is one of the most widely read newsgroups) then they should be posted. The only problem with demo versions is that they are very large and thus probably don't measure up in terms of interest per kilobuck of sending cost. (I mean kilobuck. A 300K binary will incur about $2500 in long distance charges if it is posted straight. More in some expanded form like uuencode. One could bulk mail disks to 2000 people for that price.) For shorter things, it's simply a myth that people don't want to see advertising. Most computer magazines are bought by people who want to see the ads. What people don't want is ads that annoy and get in the way. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473