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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shareware - does it really work?
Message-ID: <126416@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 23:32:22 GMT
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In article <4707@wpi.wpi.edu>, spinner@wpi.wpi.edu (B. Wang) writes:
> 
> 	I ask this because one of my friends has this programme that he
> 	constantly uses for the GS, but he feels that it is a waste of his
> 	time and money to support the author.  I think he is just %!@$@ messed
> 	up.  What is your viewpoint?

To be blunt, your friend is a thief.  Wonder if he'd feel differently if he
were writing software.

Or maybe painting pictures...and not getting paid for them.
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"...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by 
reorganizing: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion 
of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."
	- Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.