Re: Selling of Freeeware/Shareware

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From: cgeiger
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1987 15:55

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In article <1646@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, boris@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Boris Altman) writes:
> 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?

Yes!  What's going on here is that the companies are selling a
service--namely, gathering the software for the users--rather than
selling the software itself.  If that sounds fishy to you, then so
be it.

charles s. geiger
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Subject: Re: Selling of Freeeware/Shareware
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Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 10:55:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 12 10:55:01 1987
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Keywords: PD, freeeware, shareware

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