| Article ID: | iaor199311 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page Number: | 553 |
| End Page Number: | 557 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1992 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Steuer Ralph E. |
| Keywords: | computers, computational analysis: personal computers |
This invited essay argues that small demand software should be distributed free of charge from one academic to another. Medium demand software should be distributed at nominal cost to cover handling. In both cases, the software should be distributed with its source code and minimal license restrictions as long as it is promised that the software will stay within the non-commercial research and instructional community.