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Re: Web services are NOT freeware.
de jon 01/20/2007 01:33
Roger Johansson wrote:
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>Susan Bugher wrote:
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>> FYI the current *ACF* definition of Freeware is here:
>> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php
>> "Freeware: Legally obtainable software that you may use at no cost,
>> monetary or otherwise, for as long as you wish."
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>I think about a program called Nasa World Wind and google maps.
>You download a small program but it has to be in contact with a host
>program on a big computer to work. The big computer sends data to your
>computer for the area you are coming near so the small client program
>on your computer can show you a view.
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>Is that an "obtainable" program or webware?
Obtainable program. As are any weather clients etc
>It seems to me that the borderline between "webware" and "obtainable"
>software becomes increasingly impossible to determine ecactly.
I think its down to common sense. For example - the main function of
an e-mail app is to be online. That don't make Gmail freeware
>An antivirus program must be in contact with a main computer every day
>to update the client, is that a webservice or an obtainable program?
Obtainable program.
>Two chessplayers are playing over the net via a central chess computer
>center, are they using a web service or an obtainable program?
Obtainable program, as is any telnet client. (I assume they are using
telnet)
>Today the word "obtainable" causes problems, because we use many
>programs which only partly run on our own computer.
No problems here.
An example of my own:
Online translation is webware. A software client that resides on my
puter that I can use to interface with an online trans service is
obtainable software.
>I cannot obtain the Avira antivir program because I cannot afford it.
>It is located somewhere in Germany and probably costs billions of euros
>to buy.
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>I can use a small client program for free which is connected to the
>real antivir program which is running in Germany.
An AV app is not a client.