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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc: 25-Aug-92 Re: Why do people
want PD s.. by fred j m. 575-3539@mksol 
> >But I'd rather buy one good $100 commercial package than spend a lot
> >of time evaluating a bunch of crappy ones (yes, time *is* money to
> >some people).
>  
> Some people don't have the 'spare change' to make that tradeoff,
> though, Jim.  The world is full of poor, starving students.

From my experience, that $100 commercial package is more likely to be
useless than the shareware. Shareware authors have to be sure that they
deliver what they promise -- not so with commercial software. I'd rather
spend the time evaluating several shareware programs than buying a
commercial program that promises the usual -- 'easy setup, intuitive
interface, will instantly solve all your problems' -- and turns out to
be unusable for one reason or other, and being forced to waste time
returning it (if possible), buying another program, or learning some
bizarre this-program-only user interface.

--Fink

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