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Re: Online book cataloging
de Coolabcgirl 06/01/2006 12:08
The service that I am referring to is a facility for people to organize
their home library. My plan was to provide a site where people with
small home library can catalog their information and share that with
their friends. I thought if I provide some program for free to use
which normally they have to pay money for then it constitutes a
freeware. In that respect I am providing the same facility as delicious
monster program provides for mac. But you need to pay money for that. I
am providing the same feature set for free. Doesn't that make my
website freeware?
When I searched in Google for the definition of freeware I came up with
the following definition
"Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for
use free of charge, for an unlimited time, as opposed to shareware
where the user is required to pay after some trial period."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
)
According to the above explanation my website surely constitutes as a
freeware and I should have the right to post in this usenet just like
others. I really appreciate you guys for acting as the gate keepers for
preventing unwanted messages. But, before you condemn somebody please
give him a fair chance.
Thanks and Regards
Rana Basheer
John Corliss wrote:
> Coolabcgirl wrote:
> > I am providing my webservice
>
> What "service"? A bunch of affiliate links to Amazon?
>
> > free for others to use. When I wanted some
> > ways to put my home library online the only option that was before me
> > was to purchase software like delicious monster. I could not find
> > anything free. So I put some effort into making this web site. When my
> > friends saw my site, they wanted to put their stuff online too. No I do
> > have a small group of people using this site. Seeing that something
> > that I wrote is providing some value for others, I thought of providing
> > this service for free of all. Thats why I am providing the service
> > entirely free. I have used several free softwares to make this website.
> > The website is running from my linux machine in my basement using an
> > apache webserver. The database is mysql and the scripts are in PHP.
>
> Your post has nothing to do with freeware. I'm using Thunderbird to
> write this message and it's a freeware program, so using your logic, I
> should be able to post messages to this group about anything I want.
>
> --
> Regards from John Corliss
> I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett or Doc (who uses sock puppets)
> for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware,
> demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited
> software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.