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In article <15398@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>
>Of course.  I've never seen any shareware that claims you have a legal
>obligation to pay; the claimed obligation is moral.  And since I, like
>you, do not agree with this obligation, I would gleefully use newsclip
>and not pay if I felt the slightest need for it.

As a shareware author, allow me to be the first to tell you that your
attitude sucks?  The reason I come out with shareware is because of the
honest people in the world -- they send in the bucks that allow me to
continue to develop software.  There are people like Larry Wall who opt
to produce freeware - and that's great. The net owes their thanks to
Larry and those like him.

Some of my stuff, though, does have a price tag on it.  My free stuff you
can use without paying for.  But, you're obliged, ethically, to pay for
the shareware. Don't like it, then don't it.  That's pretty simple.

But, if you're going to proclaim you're dishonest, unethical and willing
to use another's intellectual property without paying for it (that's
called theft), then please do the shareware authors of the world a favor?

Keep your ethics, or lack thereof, to yourself? It disgusts those of us
who *do* rely on the honest and ethical people of the world..

Ross


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