Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Message-ID: <1162@utoday.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:52:37 GMT References: <2930@netxcom.DHL.COM> <15530@well.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 36 In article <15530@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: >[in response to Edwin Wiles analogy of broadcast medium's usage and shareware] > >Yet Another Stupid Shareware Analogy. Does the N.F.L. require that >viewers pay for these non-requested broadcasts? Hmmmm? > >Is there an epidemic of cluelessness going around? Evidently, Jef, but it seems you're the victim. Shareware is a method of distributing programs to you so you can try before you buy. Very little of the hareware that is distributed is distributed via UseNet. The majority of it is distributed bulletin board systems owned and operated by individuals that are appreciative of uploads. So, then, it seems that you're having a real problem with people using up some of your resources to distribute a coupla K of shareware? Would it be improper for me to state that your only problem seems to be with the usage of UseNet for distribution of shareware, but that you are supporting of the shareware concept through the auspices of BBS systems, both pay and free? If you have a problem with shareware as a whole, and not just with the usage of UseNet, then please state this? Or do you think that intellectual property of another that happens to come your way is something that you inherently have the right to do with as you see fit? -- Ross M. Greenberg, Technology Editor, UNIX Today! greenber@utoday.UUCP 594 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10016 Voice:(212)-889-6431 BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212 To subscribe, send mail to circ@utoday.UUCP with "Subject: Request"