Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:07:22 -0500
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[Winship wrote]
> You come up with a comprehensive manual for listowners and the listowners
> buy it (I would) and the purchase entitles the purchaser to a year (or so
> many issues) of updates. After that continued updates requires paid
> subscription (you got my money).
I do NOT want this to happen -- I much more like Eric's original thought of
putting the documentation online for anonymous access. If you want a
printed copy, Douglas, it's easy to print it!
Besides my distaste at paying extra for the manual to a piece of software
that already has non-trivial license and maintenance fees ("you want to
know *how* to use it? that'll cost extra"), the list-owner's manual is
needed by many who don't "live" at the LISTSERV site, and for whom having
to pay for the manual is as good as saying they can't have one.
The manual really needs to be freely available. If there's a large enough
market for printed/bound copies, I'm sure L-Soft will be willing to print
some up. (Ample precedent for this. In fact some of the Linux manuals
have recently been edited and distributed as books by O'Reilly &
Associates, even while the edited copies are available for anonymous ftp.
Both versions are very popular.)
Norm
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I will not sell land in Florida
I will not sell land in Florida
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