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Subject: Re: What would

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:13:13 12/09/05

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On December 09, 2005 at 21:10:56, Steve B wrote:

>>can you show me a post where the program author himself violated the charter or
>>openly encouraged others to violate the charter?
>
>
>well ..
>he announced his program and in the zip file indicated there will be a 5 day
>freeware period and then its commercial
>
>its direct advertising of a product
>
>i really dont care if there is a violation..my only concern is that
>i think the CCC or ICD should in someway benefit from these impending sales do
>to the free advertising
>
>id i were ICD'S accountant i would advise Steve to require all program authors
>who are going to use this new marketing technique(very small freeware period and
>then commerical release) to commit to a small percentage of their sales back to
>the board for upkeep
>
>way i see it

I guess that there are not a lot of sales driven from here.

But if Vasik Rajlich makes a CD version, I think that selling it as an ICD
exclusive might be very nice.



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