Re: lynx-dev Alert: this client does not contain support for HTTPS urls.

[Bela Lubkin]

David Woolley wrote:

David>>> Use on a shell account would have to be commecial use (by the service
David>>> provider) which is in violation of point (2).

Bela>> What on earth are you talking about?  A shell account by no means
Bela>> implies a commercial service.

David> Statistically it does on this list.  Are you quibbling because "account"
David> can also refer to a login in on one's personal PC or one's universities
David> mainframe, or are you quibbling that some third party dial in shell 
account
David> services are done on a non-profit basis, so might be borderline from the
David> RSA licence point of view.

I'm quibbling about those, plus free public access systems.  A friend of
mine runs a system which is free, allows local dialup in the Santa Cruz
CA area, and gives full shell access with all the latest utilities and
toys.  Basically it's his desktop at home, but hey, why not let people
use the excess CPU power and disk space?  It isn't running Windows, so
allowing other people to use it doesn't destablize it...

He has >1300 users.  At least 500 of them are active (defined as "logs
in at least once a week to check mail").

Systems like this may be rare, but they definitely exist.  I know of
several others.

If you had written "Use on a shell account would _typically_ be
commercial use", I wouldn't have said anything.  You were too absolute.

>Bela<