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|           Shareware is a blight upon humanity

Aren't you exaggerating just a *bit*?  However, since you bring the point
up, why are shareware programmers a "blight", and not people who insist on
using other people's property without permission? That's what it means to
use a piece of shareware beyond the license period.  Rationalize all you
want, but that's the bottom line.

|                                                  by definition,
|shareware authors are amateur programers who program for fun, and not
|to put food on their table. 

Ahem.  Just about all the shareware authors I know (particularly the
Newton crowd) are professional developers, consultants, etc.  Hardy
Macia?  Steve Weyer?  "amateur programers (sic)"?  Bite your tongue.

|                            Why not be a freeware programmer instead?

I'm afriad that's our business, not yours.  Fact is, a lot of shareware
programmers *do* release freeware.   But that really has to be our
decision, not  to be dictated at the whim at someone who seems to glory in
his petty larceny.

Dan Parvaz.