Klarinet Archive - Posting 001264.txt from 1998/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sneezy II & Klarinet Archive CD-ROM update
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:25:21 -0500

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Buyers will
>send their ROMs back to you for additional data? I assume this is
>what you mean, otherwise it's a waste of space to put a couple of
>hundred Mb on a 650 Mb disk and then not fill it up later.

If they wish. They'll only save a dollar or so since shipping the disk
back costs just over a dollar in the US. If I happen to be at a
convention and have a CD burner I'll do it for a buck or so if someone
gives me their old CD-R.

>Will the ROM's you send out include viewng/searching software
>of some kind?

No, since there is a variety of machines out there, and searching
software for personal use may be downloaded from sites such as AltaVista
for free. If I distributed software I would have to:

1) Compile & test it
2) Possibly license it for commercial distribution
3) Provided it on multiple platforms
4) Support the installation and
5) Debug it when problems arise

The price of the CD-R would have to rise _substantially_ (to near the
$100 range) if I provide these services. Instead, you are free to do
whatever you wish with the files - all are straight ASCII text.

The free Internet service I provide will remain. This is an adjunct to
that service.
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Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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