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From: jib@prism.TMC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shareware - does it really work?
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Date: 19 Oct 89 18:13:00 GMT
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RE: Shareware -- a User's View
As a user, I totally support paying a shareware author if you use his
program.  To do anything else is immature and immoral as well as illegal
and short-sighted.

If many people had your "friend's" attitude there would simply be NO
shareware -- any many useful, worthwhile programs have been produced as
shareware -- in fact, many utility programs don't have a large enough
potential market to sell any other way.

Shareware is a good concept -- you get to try a program and only pay for
it if you find it useful.  As a user, I really like the concept!

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