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From: spinner@wpi.wpi.edu (B. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shareware - does it really work?
Message-ID: <4901@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 22:54:35 GMT
References: <4707@wpi.wpi.edu> <126416@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: spinner@wpi.wpi.edu (B. Wang)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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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.


	Ahh.... I asked that very same question.  His futile response was:
		"I don't expect them to pay me... I don't care."

	
	Continuing...

		"Honestly, I feel that copying software is not stealing.
		 Stealing in my viewpoint is removing an material item.
		 Copying, is another thing... I am not stealing anything.
		 Even if the programmer priced the programme for only one
		 dollar, I still would not send money.  It is a waste of
		 my time and stamp."

		"If I wrote a programme and offered it as share-ware, I
		 don't expect them to pay me... I don't care."




	So far I have heard responses from ShareWare Programmers,  how about
	the end users' view?



	Bevan Wang