by Dan East » Oct 6, 2001 @ 7:52pm
I checked the site out a couple days ago, and looked carefully for anything denoting shareware / freeware / demo, etc, and found nothing at all to indicate that fact.<br><br>Of course as a programmer I want to fully protect my rights. However I think any court would find it reasonable for a company to charge a fee to collect, archive and distribute "freely distributable" software. They are simply performing a service and saving their customers effort. Take the somewhat related example of GNU source code. I could have charged a reasonable processing, handling and media fee ($25 for example) for the Pocket Quake source code, and distributed it only on CD-ROM.<br><br>Dan East