Top Dog - a sample IRIS Showcase document

Marc Andreessen andreess at mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu
Wed Mar 20 21:41:22 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar20.100818.7843 at itnsg1.cineca.it> root at itnsg1.cineca.it (Valter Cavecchia) writes:
>drw900 at anusf.anu.edu.au ("Drew R Whitehouse") writes:
>>	If it's being bundled with new machines, and sold for the
>>price of the transfer media, why not make it available for ftp on
>>sgi.com along with other unsupported bit's and pieces ? 
>>							Drew.
>I agree with this statement. 
>	valter

Because Internet cannot be used for commercial purposes.  This
rule is bent regularly, but commercial software distribution would
probably be going a little too far.

Although it sure would be nice were this not the case... I'd much
rather deal with computer companies via email than snailmail or
over the phone.

Marc

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