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We describe in this paper an archive of software which has been established and made available to users of the Internet. The archive was establishde initially as a collection of public domain software, made available to users at no cost. Use of the archive has grown rapidly: it now contains over 600 items, and withdrawals take place to some 50 countries world-wide at a rate of about 40,000 items each month. We describe here the organisation of the archive and summarise its contents. A particular aspect of this has been our aim to define qualitative criteria for the inclusion of software in this collection, and we discuss our approach to this and other issues. |
