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- From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang)
- Subject: Re: CD publishers should fund Sonata!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.004446.29743@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <eronald.728089816@ruble>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 00:44:46 GMT
- Lines: 31
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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
-