Re: IF archive on CD-ROM


24 Oct 1995 15:09:10 GMT

Paul David Doherty (h0142kdd@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de) wrote:

: Of course I'm no lawyer but I know that Walnut Creek has
: produced CDROMs of other FTP sites (e.g. the Aminet archive of Amiga
: software) where the same applies, and they did so w/o any problems.
: They gave a free CDROM to anyone who could prove that one of her
: programs was included on the CD, and that was about it. Two or three
: authors stated that they didn't want their programs on the CD, but
: I can't remember any big discussions within the Amiga community.

Except that Walnut Creek was getting everyone a really lousy deal and
things got much better for everyone (lower prices for end users and
higher profits for Aminet's upkeep) when they switched publishers at
Aminet 3.

Walnut Creek are the people who said that the third-largest FTP archive in
the world (Aminet) wasn't "getting enough activity" to justify keeping
it on their site. Of course, that was AFTER the publication switch...

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