🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <15436@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>In the referenced message, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) wrote:
>}                                               You may also find
>}them more likely to support you with little problems if they have
>}a check from you in their bank account.
>
>I provide my own support.  Note that this implies another of my little
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Would not this support also include writing your own programs then?

I usually don't get into things like this, but I can't resist. I have
posted a few software packages to UseNet. I chose to put them in the
public domain. For me, who have my income elsewhere, who wrote my
stuff basically because I needed it myself, and who believe in sharing,
that was natural. I never intended to get anything back except maybe
the gratitude of others. And I have gotten that, which feels good.

But for shareware writers, who try to make a living on what they write,
it is quite understandable that they want something back for it. I think
that shareware writers provide, at a big risk, something that many of us
can benefit from, at a low cost, and they even let us TRY before we buy.
That should be respected. What makes me most upset is your blatant attitude
that could be expressed as 'if someone is dumb enough to make it possible
for me to grab it, of course I do'. I am no saint myself, but I have some
concience. Your argumentation makes me sick.

I don't remember seing any shareware packages published by Jef Poskanzer.
Of course I may be wrong about that but if he publishes one, he might
not enjoy his own ideas so much...

							Bjorn Larsson

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