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Article #356Re: painless software distribution (was Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers)
From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:56
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:56
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In article <59187@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes: > I called Appsoft for a student copy of WriteNow, gave them > the credit number in the afternoon, they sent it via NeXT mail and > I was using it that night. A fast and painless distribution > scheme that says money for everyone - they said its their preferred method. > > Many companies will send demos that way too The problem with that, as I'm sure you know, is that not all internet sites want to pay for commercial traffic, which is exactly what the transactions you described are. Why should other people pay money to make it easy for you to receive you private commercial purchases? -- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy" New Haven, CT nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!cs.yale.edu!news From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: painless software distribution (was Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers) Message-ID: <1992Jul23.155605.14311@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: jacobi.biology.yale.edu Reply-To: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <59187@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:56:05 GMT Lines: 19