Aminet Statement
The last few month there are discussions about Aminet policy, Aminet pricing, Aminet freebies and the number of sold Aminet CD's. Here is my opionion and my reaction :

Aminet is the world largest archive of freely distributable programs. And therefore, I think, the administrators have to make public the number of sold CD's. All the authors of FD programs have the right to know, who and how much some people earn money with his product. I don't think the Aminet people shouldn't earn money for their work. But I think it has to be public, so that every author can make his own decision if it's ok for him or not. It seems to me, that the makers/administrators of Aminet are afraid of that. Earn they so much ? I don't know.
Why do not want the most members of the German Federal Parliament to publishtheir complete income ? Just an analogy!

If there are no authors of FD programs, there is no Aminet and no Aminet CD's.

Because I use the Aminet ftpsites for the distribution of my programs, I decided to allow the distribution of all my Shareware programs (HTDS, XRef) on Aminet CD's. This should be my contribution for the administration of Aminet. For all my Freeware programs, I decided to disallow the distribution on Aminet CD's as long as there are no published informations about the number of sold Aminet CD's. Also I do not order any free CD until these informations are published!

But recently I read the statement from Angela Schmidt that the Meeting-Pearls Freebies are distributated from Stefan Ossowski without any fee. And so the Aminet-CD Freebie fee is only a request from Urban Mueller, I think. Angela also estimate a five-digit income in DM for each Aminet-CD. So that isn't acceptable for me. With this income Urban should better support the Amiga developers, perhaps he should sponsor the Amiga-OS Replacement project for example.

For all my projects a :

      Distribution: NoCD