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BOYCOTT AUSTIN CODE WORKS!  This organization is distributing other
people's works WITHOUT PERMISSION and often even blatently so!  As a
programmer who has produced shareware, this alone is enough reason to
avoid this organization, but there is more: Their prices are very
high and the software out of date.

If you can read this message, everything you can get from ACW can be
had FOR FREE via ftp.  Even if you have no direct ftp, you can get
files from most sites through the princeton pucc list-server.

Just before the flames start, let me give you an example: The following
letter from Alan Paeth describes the tribulations of an author trying
to keep his software free.  The letter ends with a list of sites
carrying Alan's SAO starchart data, which I have included both for
completeness, and to give an idea of the number of FREE sites out there.

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From: awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alan Wm Paeth)
Newsgroups: sci.astro
Subject: SAO/StarChart Rip-off Warning!
Date: 6 Aug 90 16:54:05 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada

A group calling itself ``Austin Code Works'' has been illegally peddling
copies of the SAO dataset which I originally reduced and annouced to
this group (with cross-posting to net.sources.unix) in late '88 for use
with the StarChart suite. I learned of this on Friday when a fellow in
Maine called asking for assistance and information on the code and
related ``StarChart'' format. It seems the ``Code Works'' is unwilling
to support the dataset and ``kindly'' left my name in as the referral in
support of their profiteering!

As mentioned in the first paragraph of the SAO distribution (*), that
data is the property of the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory and is
redistributed for private and scientific NON-PROFIT use only; I
specifically arranged for this with NASA's World Data Center in
Greenbelt, MD by written correspondence.  Likewise, the home-grown
unpacking software which accompanies the distribution has my copyright
notice prominently affixed.

Needless to say, I'm mad as H--- about being ripped off. The best way to
drive these clowns out of business is to to make available generous
redistributions of this database available WITH ALL DISCLAIMERS AFFIXED,
thus removing any black market. While on the subject, the companion
StarChart software which I created and posted to this group likewise has
copyright notices affixed. The most recent version (almost entirely the
work Craig Counterman, the authorized developer) bears similar
copyrights -- we have been careful in the wording and placement of such
notices on all our software.

Tell a friend.

    /Alan Paeth
    Computer Graphics Laboratory
    University of Waterloo

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(*) FTP copies of the SAO reduction (in StarChart format) may be
obtained during
    off-peak hours from:
#
# THE CANONICAL archive for comp.sources.unix
#
   ftp uunet.uu.net
   anonymous
   yourname@youraddress.etc
   cd comp.sources.unix/volume16/sao
   mget *
   quit
#
# Secondary archive at Purdue
# note: Here the SAO is in its original v16i090.Z through v16i140.Z wrappers
#
   j.cc.purdue.edu
   anonymous
   yourname@youraddress.etc
   cd comp.sources.unix/volume16
   mget v16i09*.Z
   mget v16i10*.Z
   mget v16i11*.Z
   mget v16i12*.Z
   mget v16i13*.Z
   mget v16i140.Z
   quit
#
# Public binaries site at Washington U, St. Louis [128.252.135.4]
# note: a MAIL server connection is rumored to exist
#
   ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu
   anonymous
   yourname@youraddress.etc
   cd usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume16/sao
   mget *
   quit
#
# Privately maintained, courtesy of Karl Kleinpaste <karl@cis.ohio-state.edu>
#
   ftp cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu
   anonymous
   yourname@youraddress.etc
   cd pub/comp.sources.unix/Volume16/sao
   mget *
   quit

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