Re: [faq-maintainers: The FAQ Maintainers Association - Proposal]

Piero Serini (piero@strider.st.dsi.unimi.it)
Thu, 20 Jan 1994 17:17:10 -0200 (GMT-2:00)

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Quoting from Ping Huang:
> > For example, here in Italy there's a lot of people making money from
> > shareware, and I know of at least other 3 european countryes where
> > this is possible. Not legal, but possible, because there's nobody
> > with the right to stop such a thing. The only persons who could are
> > the author, or an Association with the author's power of attorney.
>
> This is illegal is and only if (a) the distributors exceed any limits
> placed in the shareware on how much they can charge for media (e.g., per
> floppy disk, per megabyte downloaded, or per CD-ROM disk)

I know this, believe me. When I write they make money, I mean they make
a lot of money. I think 50 US$ each FLOPPY is too much. The standard
limit imposed by shareware authors is usually 5/10 US $.

Bye

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Piero Serini                                              Via Giambologna, 1
<piero@strider.st.dsi.unimi.it>                       I 20136 Milano - ITALY

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