Re: Paying for Shareware

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From: Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynar...
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 13:05

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In article <1990Feb23.155338.28418@iam.unibe.ch> salvis@iam.unibe.ch (Hans Salvisberg) writes:
>[...] everyone on the shareware side implicitely assumes that
>there may be a piece of shareware that might actually be valuable to you,
>so that you'd rather pay the registration fee than delete it from your
>disk, if you were forced to choose between these two alternatives. And
>the whole point is that given you are using such a piece of shareware,
>it would be fair to pay the registration fee, even if you are not forced
>to.

This is a clear, concise, and understandable position, and one with
which I agree. You may not be forced to pay for the shareware you use,
but it's the Right Thing to do.

Me? I voted with my wallet: this discussion led me to go buy a copy of
FluShot+, Ross Greenberg's program.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware
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Date: 25 Feb 90 13:05:02 GMT
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