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Article #7122Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement (commercial use?)
From: Anton Rang
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1989 02:59
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1989 02:59
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In article <3403@netcom.UUCP> wasilko@netcom.UUCP (Jeff Wasilko) writes: >This still smells of commercial use of the net. I don't see Microsoft, Claris >3Com or any other major software publishers / hardware manufacturers >posting repetive messages (advertisements) about product upgrades. I don't >see any reason why this should be any different. Well, I do see companies like Symantec using the net to post upgrade notices. In fact, they even post updates to their software (i.e. the LSP 2.01->2.15 [or whatever] program).... I don't see anything wrong with this. It's usually useful info (even if I don't own the product, it gives me a chance to see what kind of work is going into it, and the ensuing discussion is useful in getting a feel for people's opinions of the product). I'm not quite sure where the boundary should be, though. (BTW, did any representatives of the *company* post the original article, or was it posted by somebody else?) Anton +----------------------------------+------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | | University of Wisconsin--Madison | | +----------------------------------+------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement (commercial use?) Message-ID: <RANG.89Oct25215933@derby.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 26 Oct 89 02:59:33 GMT References: <4380@yunexus.UUCP> <2938@husc6.harvard.edu> <829@pmafire.UUCP> <995@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> <3403@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 25 In-reply-to: wasilko@netcom.UUCP's message of 26 Oct 89 02:02:45 GMT