CD publishers should fund Sonata!

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2 total messages Started by Edmund Ronald Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:10

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Author: Edmund Ronald
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:10

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Much of the software on Sonata, eg. 1.0 and 2.0 stuff is of archival
importance. I suggest it should be copied onto a CD, and placed on
a jukebox CD drive. This would also make sure this software was safe
which is essential for those who for some reason run old systems.

Surely, all those CD collection publishers that got their stuff off 
Sonata could spring for a CD drive for the server? Some of my software
has got "freebied" by people from all over the place, including Canon Japan.

I am sure that Canon, would do the honorable thing if approached nicely -
after all they are using this as a marketing tool, and the Japanese
are notorious for going after long-term symbiotic relationships rather
than letting the goose which lays the golden eggs die of starvation.

Edmund.

Re: CD publishers should fund Sonata!

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Author: Avery Wang
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:44

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In article <eronald.728089816@ruble> eronald@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Edmund Ronald)  
writes:
> Much of the software on Sonata, eg. 1.0 and 2.0 stuff is of archival
> importance. I suggest it should be copied onto a CD, and placed on
> a jukebox CD drive. This would also make sure this software was safe
> which is essential for those who for some reason run old systems.
> 
> Surely, all those CD collection publishers that got their stuff off 
> Sonata could spring for a CD drive for the server? Some of my software
> has got "freebied" by people from all over the place, including Canon Japan.
> 
> I am sure that Canon, would do the honorable thing if approached nicely -
> after all they are using this as a marketing tool, and the Japanese
> are notorious for going after long-term symbiotic relationships rather
> than letting the goose which lays the golden eggs die of starvation.
> 
> Edmund.

I'm in total agreement here!  I had some of my stuff "freebied" by various  
publishers too.  2 of them asked for my permission to distribute my software.   
I haven't checked, but I wonder if anyone else has published my software  
without my knowledge or permission. (So far, I don't care).

Anyway, software authors who get asked for permission to have their software  
distributed are in a position to request that a donation be made to the  
various archive servers.  So I propose that people keep this in mind in the  
future.  But by now, all the software that is out on the currently distributed  
disks has already been sucked off, so we would have to wait for new stuff to  
apply any leverage, I suppose. 

-Avery

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