FEdit 2.1

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2 total messages Started by Darin Adler Thu, 28 Feb 1985 23:48

#690

Author: Darin Adler
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1985 23:48

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I was quite dismayed recently when a version of FEdit 2.1 refused to run
telling me that it was no longer authorized, or something like that.  I
think that putting code like that in a program which purports to be
"FreeWare" (or whatever term the author chose) is obnoxious.  I had only
used the FEdit for 2 or 3 days and after seeing something like that, I
do NOT intend to send a fee to the author.

Trying to do something like that is futile because bypassing the "expiration"
code is very easy.  Only one person needs to do it and then a copy exists which
can be used past the expiration date.  I resist the temptation to post a
modified version that works forever only in the hopes that the author of FEdit
will not waste his time putting such code into what is otherwise a fine
program.

Darin Adler
ihnp4!tmq!darin

Re: FEdit 2.1

#709

Author: J. Eric Roskos
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1985 21:39

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> I was quite dismayed recently when a version of FEdit 2.1 refused to run
> telling me that it was no longer authorized, or something like that.

If it is true that such a program was posted to the net, this would seem
to be an advertisement, as surely as if one posted a verbal description
of the features of a product, then asked for the users to buy it in order
to experience it firsthand -- the difference being that the "description"
consisted of an opportunity TO see it firsthand (like a participatory
TV commercial).  It has been my understanding that such advertisements are
forbidden on the net; and pushing the definition of "freeware" into this
grey area would seem to endanger the ability to distribute it at all.

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