Thanks, Tina! I agree with this completely. My Windows FAQs, into which
I have invested months of my time, are freely distributable on Usenet
news, email, ftp, http, Compuserve, AOL, any random BBS that chooses,
CD-ROM, diskettes and/or paper tape, as long as the copyright is included
and no money is charged for them. I wrote them to help people using
Windows, and distributing them on CD-ROM certainly gets them into the
hands of more people.
In my view, Walnut Creek has offered to remove FAQs from the CD-ROMS on
request, and to send free CD-ROMs to others. Given the minuscule portion
of a CD-ROM's content that my FAQs make up, I don't consider them to be
making any "real" amount of money on my undoubtedly real labours.
I wish Walnut Creek good luck, and I hope all the FAQ maintainers will
take a little time over the holidays to think about the real purpose
behind their FAQs...
-- [ /tom haapanen -- tomh@metrics.com -- software metrics inc -- waterloo, ont ] [ "only a toy." -- alexander graham bell's father-in-law, 1876 ]
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