Re: Joe Solla's objection

[Harmon F Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

>'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.

-- Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx hseaver@xxxxxxxx
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