Date: 1998/12/25
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 17:21:36 -0800, Christopher Reid
<CReid1701@aol.com> wrote:
>Ivan Strougatski wrote:
>>
>> One of magazines in UK that gives SO for free is PC Pro.
>> (I informed
http://www.wcnews.com about this).
>> They give away _complite_, 7 episodes.
>>
>> What I can not understand is a official Origin/EA position on
>> this matter.
>> It would be nice if Boomer can clarify this.
>
> He already did. Someone asked Boomer directly on the CIC SO Chat
>Zone. It's illegal, but it's more trouble than it's worth to hunt down
>most of the offenders.
>
>Chris Reid Wing Commander CIC
>ChrisReid@wcnews.com
http://www.wcnews.com
The 'problem' is, how could you look a magazine editor in the face and
say 'you can't do that' when they could turn around and point to many
online sites making SO available. Doing so would be shooting
ourselves in the foot (e.g. risking the relationships with magazines).
And it seems regarding SO, if we were to shut one online site down
from offering it another would pop up somewhere else.
Boomer