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Subject: Re: Online Help
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 10:19:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
In-Reply-To: <9407150009.AA18828@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 15, 94 10:09:02 am
Message-Id: <9407151022.ag13491@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
Precedence: bulk
What you wrote:
> >> ST-Guide is Freeware ...
> >
> >Not any more. Holger has changed the status of the latest release
> >to Fairware.
>
> Anything but Freeware cannot be supported by a standard (hehe... unless it's
> made by MicroCruft).
>
> This is unfortunate.
>
> A possibility is to have a Freeware version that provides base functionality,
> plus a non-Freeware version with added value. Both must accept all versions
> of documents written for them [ie. one cannot leave out support for images].
> I still don't like it... but that's probably just my politics.
I agree totally. Given the size of our user-base and the number of
developers, freeware is the only choice. Well, I suppose beg-ware would
be ok, if the begging was only in the README file...
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