On 2003-09-01 17:04:39 +0100 Tarquin Mills speccyverse@ntlworld.com wrote:
Peter Naulls is also trying to get me to pay 10 pounds for a copy of GNU library NCurses ported to RISC OS, I want to use it to right a gopher browser. This may not be illegal but, ...
...he's perfectly entitled to try? If you don't want to pay for his time and expertise, you have to either find another supplier or do it yourself. Such is the free market. You may find it worthwhile writing the backend of the gopher client before deciding whether to pay for ncurses.