From: Paul Kimoto <kimoto@lightlink.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:20:40 -0400
To: New York Times online--feedback <feedback@nytimes.com>
Subject: "Related Sites" to online NYT article "Sentiment growing for freeware"

As I use source-available software constantly, it is a pleasure to find
coverage of this underpublicized phenomenon in the _New York Times_.  I am
surprised, however, to find that the "Related Sites" listed in the online
edition contains only four links, to Microsoft, Oracle, Netscape, and
O'Reilly, particularly because the article mentions the first two companies
only for comparison.  In none of these cases are these "external Web sites
mentioned in the article", as the "Related Sites" heading is annotated, so
I presume that these links are included for further information or
publicity.

As the article notes, the freeware phenomenon is flourishing because of the
proliferation of the Internet, and so it is virtually certain that *all* of
the projects mentioned have web sites.  In the past I have visited sites
for the programs sendmail [1], perl [2], Apache [3], and bind [4], and
there are many sites devoted to different aspects of Linux [5].  I hope
that in the future, articles about freeware will list those programs' web
sites alongside those of their more traditionally commercial counterparts.

	-Paul Kimoto <kimoto@lightlink.com>

1. http://www.sendmail.org/
2. http://www.perl.com/
3. http://www.apache.org/
4. http://www.isc.org/bind.html
5. see, for example, the list at http://ftp.kernel.org/links.html
   ("kernel.org" is sponsored by Linus Torvalds's employer, Transmeta)