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Article #1438Re: Why do people want PD software?
From: Marc Roussel
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:40
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:40
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In article <1992Aug21.201734.20379@PA.dec.com> reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com
(Jim Reisert) writes:
>To me, given equal functionality and comparable prices [...]
You may just have hit the nail on the head there. Usually, for
equal functionality, shareware is cheaper. (This is not always the case,
but usually so.) There is a good reason for that: Shareware authors
don't pay much for advertising and distribution. People find out about
their products by word of mouth and the software then gets around by
being passed from BBS to FTP site to BBS at no cost to the original
author.
Marc R. Roussel
mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
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