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The annual shareware war.

#5170
From: Marcus J. Ranum
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 23:18
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In article <1134@utoday.UUCP> greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
~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..

	This argument surfaces regularly enough that maybe we can all opt
to move it to alt.flame or someplace ?

	BTW - anyone know where comp.sources.unix has gone?

mjr.
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From: mjr@mimsy.umd.edu (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: The annual shareware war.
Message-ID: <21684@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 90 23:18:18 GMT
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