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Article #5250Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
From: Sean Casey
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 06:13
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 06:13
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bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) writes: |This "unsolicited book" mentality comes from people who think software |should cost $2 because disks cost that. Poor generalization. The "unsolicited book" is an analogy, not a mentality. Shareware is a mentality. I don't care what software costs. That's for the author to decide. The market will determine if it's a viable price, but "should be" really has nothing to do with it. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** "May I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism *** in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there *** is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit." -MP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Message-ID: <14091@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 10 Feb 90 06:13:57 GMT References: <13986@s.ms.uky.edu> <33975@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2488@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <34142@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 21