Re: tlug: New ftp client for X

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Totoro wrote:
> 
> > I saw a note about this one on comp.os.linux.announce. It's a blatant
> > hack of the Windows WSFTP, but for an initial release not too shabby.
> > Not all the functionality is there yet (version 0.1), but I think it's
> > decent enough to include in the system.
> > 
> > If you're interested, take a look at:
> > 
> > http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/WXFTP/index.html
> 
> nice distribution policy.  No source, can't put it on a CD... I guess he
> really wants to be paid.  I didn't see any payment info in there, though.

To be fair, he does explain his tight license policy by noting that he
doesn't want to have anyone charged for some alpha level code and also
he expects to liberalize this later on, as well as including source.

Beats the M$ world, where huge shareware fees are expected for such
alpha and beta-level binaries...


David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki
Hachinohe-shi Aomori-ken

http://w3.clat.hi-tech.ac.jp

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