ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) (03/26/90)
Attached is the DECUS Languages & Tools (L&T) Special Interest Group (SIG) Public Domain Working Group Top 30 Tools tools survey ballot. The L&T PDWG is trying to find the most used/favorite non-comercial programs on the various computer systems. Please fill out a ballot and return it to DECUS@NIELNAD.DAYTON.OH.US by April 20. Ted Nieland DECUS L&T Public Domain Working Group Chair The Public Domain Top 30 Ballot The Public Domain Working Group of the DECUS Languages and Tools SIG is interested in what public domain programs you find usefull on the various computers you work. For each of the operating systems listed below, please list your favorite public domain programs. Please MAIL your ballot by April 20, 1990 to DECUS@NIELAND.DAYTON.OH.US (or uunet!dayvb!nieland!decus). Thank you for you assistance, the results of this ballotting will be given in a session at the Spring 1990 DECUS Symposium in New Orleans, as well as published in LEVERAGE, the L&T SIG Newsletter, posted on DECUServe, and posted on USENET. Note, some of the previously nominated programs are already listed. If that is a program you would have listed, just place an X by it. Please note nor more than 10 programs for each operating system. VMS UNIX MS-DOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TeX & Utilties KERMIT PKZIP KERMIT GNU EMACS ARC VERB GNU CC Micro EMACS FILE SEDT SEDT FINGER ______________ KERMIT SPELL ______________ ______________ DECUS UUCP ______________ ______________ GNU CC ______________ ______________ GNU EMACS ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ RSX RT/TSX FINDER (Macintosh) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECUS C KERMIT STUFFIT FINGER ______________ KERMIT KERMIT ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ Amiga DOS ------------------ ZOO WARP ARP ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (03/27/90)
In article <00373.AA00373@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US> ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) writes: |Attached is the DECUS Languages & Tools (L&T) Special Interest Group (SIG) |Public Domain Working Group Top 30 Tools tools survey ballot. The L&T |PDWG is trying to find the most used/favorite non-comercial programs on |the various computer systems. Please fill out a ballot and return it to |DECUS@NIELNAD.DAYTON.OH.US by April 20. | |Ted Nieland .... |RSX RT/TSX FINDER (Macintosh) |------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |DECUS C KERMIT STUFFIT |FINGER ______________ KERMIT About the Mac piece of this survey (I can't speak about any other part): StuffIt! is NEITHER public domain nor free. It is shareware. Much other popular Mac software is NOT public domain, though it may not have a shareware fee attached to it; authors wish to retain any rights they are entitled to keep. Some software, such as BinHex 4.0, is truly public domain. (I don't know about Kermit.) If you are really doing a survey of public domain software you must be clear about what can be on this list. As you have phrased your query, I would never have put StuffIt! on my ballot. /JBL = Nets: levin@bbn.com | "There were sweetheart roses on Yancey Wilmerding's or {...}!bbn!levin | bureau that morning. Wide-eyed and distraught, she POTS: (617)873-3463 | stood with all her faculties rooted to the floor."
ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) (03/30/90)
In Article <54091@bbn.COM>, levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes: >About the Mac piece of this survey (I can't speak about any other part): > >StuffIt! is NEITHER public domain nor free. It is shareware. > >Much other popular Mac software is NOT public domain, though it may >not have a shareware fee attached to it; authors wish to retain any >rights they are entitled to keep. Some software, such as BinHex 4.0, >is truly public domain. (I don't know about Kermit.) > >If you are really doing a survey of public domain software you must be >clear about what can be on this list. As you have phrased your query, >I would never have put StuffIt! on my ballot. You didn't read the message very well: Note the original text: Attached is the DECUS Languages & Tools (L&T) Special Interest Group (SIG) Public Domain Working Group Top 30 Tools tools survey ballot. The L&T PDWG is trying to find the most used/favorite non-comercial programs on the various computer systems. The key words here are NON-COMERCIAL PROGRAMS. Stuff-it any many of the other Mac programs fall into that category. The Survey is called the Public Domain Survey for two reasons: 1) The DECUS Public Domain Working Group is sponsoring it, and 2) Public Domain is used as a generic term to cover non-comercial software. I don't agree with the use of "Public Domain" software, but the industry and the users allow it to cover true public domain, freeware (copyrighted, but not public code), and shareware. Most of the books, artcles and adds from places that have collections of shareware and the like call it all public domain. I don't like it, but it is what people understand. -- M. Edward (Ted) Nieland Ted@NIELAND.DAYTON.OH.US (aka uunet!dayvb!nieland!ted)