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Article #5173Re: Paying for Shareware
From: Ross M. Greenberg
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 22:33
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 22:33
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In article <15410@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>
>>Ignoring the worthless moralizing, this is incorrect, due to being an
>>incomplete statement. I'll complete it for you. The vast majority of
>>the support you receive for your software is in the form of the free
>>distribution you have come to depend on, exploit, and ignore. But it's
>>not really free -- nothing is.
Actually, the vast majority of my registrations come people who have
purchased a disk containing one of my products from a disk distributor
who has asked my permission to distribute my product on a disk that he
or she sells and makes a profit from.
The real world may be different than you imagine.
--
Ross M. Greenberg, Technology Editor, UNIX Today! greenber@utoday.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware Message-ID: <1135@utoday.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 90 22:33:47 GMT References: <1134@utoday.UUCP> <15410@well.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 22