[sac-board] Re: Trip to NASP

My question about all of this is will the person that wrote the program
be willing for us to include his software on the CD and us to charge for
it - along with all the other files discussed?

Don't be mislead by the question as I'm all for providing the
information Steve has described.

aj

Steve Coe wrote:
> 
> Paul;
> 
> I plan to have the data and text files available on the CD in plain vanilla 
> ASCII text versions and the images in JPEG for the most transportable formats 
> available.  Seeing as how CDs have 650 Meg of memory that is plenty of room 
> to include lots of all that information.  I do NOT plan to make the entire CD 
> available as an image on the web site, I believe that would encourage very 
> long downloads that I don't wish to support.  Also, the point of all this is 
> to make some money for the schloarship fund.
> 
> As to your point about the media only costing pennies, the same is true of 
> music CDs and they are 8 to 20 dollars because the information on the disk is 
> worth it.  I do honestly believe that a well done disk of data, text and 
> images from SAC is worth 10 bucks.  I know you are going to come back and say 
> people can download it, but some folks will want to have it all available on 
> one neat disk.  That is my opinion.  Let me get it all together and we will 
> see how many folks want a copy.
> 
> Steve
> 
> stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx
> Author:  Deep Sky Observing--The Astronomical Tourist

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