Selling of Freeeware/Shareware

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From: Boris Altman
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1987 18:16

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I have seen that some companies distribute/sell PD software/shareware
at a price ranging from $3 to $10 for a 400K disk. I thought that the rule
was that you can charge only to cover your cost and postage.
Most users group charge very low price of 50 cents to $1 per disk.
I think if they charge $3 a disk they are making profits and with $10/disk
they have a great profit margin. My question to the net is:

Is this legal?
			Boris Altman
			{ihnp4,ucbvax}!ulysses!boris
			AT&T Bell Labs

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From: boris@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Boris Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Selling of Freeeware/Shareware
Message-ID: <1646@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 13:16:51 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 11 13:16:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:53:54 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Keywords: PD, freeeware, shareware