Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 92 13:40:44 PDT
From:	Peter Crowley <pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com>
To:	arrakis!thor AT uunet DOT uu DOT net, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: qddvx101.zip availability

>Believe it or not, DJ Delorie said:
>>
>> Clarkson University is currently investigating the legalities of
>> making commercial software (such as qddvx101.zip may be) available on
>> the Internet from their machines.
>[...]

Bob Hood said:
>I was not aware that these libraries were "commercial" in nature.  Nowhere
>in the documentation (at least, that I could see) does it say anything
>concerning this, nor is there any requested payment or reimbursement
>either, as is typical of ShareWare products (an order above these
>libraries, I think, and they themselves are not strictly "commercial"
>in nature).

Apparently a reference to the availability of the free X11 libraries on
barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu appeared in a Quarterdeck advertisement. This is
where Quarterdeck Marketing stepped over the line. We hope to solve this by 
refering to our own FTP server (when we get one) in future adds.

Peter Crowley
Quarterdeck Offices Systems



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