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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: comp.binaries.mac
Summary: Preference: Free, shareware, technotes, updates, crippleware
Keywords: binaries, demo
Message-ID: <1854@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 90 15:47:46 GMT
Expires: 29 Jan 90 05:00:00 GMT
References: <3514@husc6.harvard.edu> <126900136@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1110@urbana.mcd.mot.com> <2848@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
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In <2848@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:
>willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes:
>>About the question of demo programs on comp.binaries.mac ....
>>I think that a 12-part demo of a game program is way out of line.
>   I agree.  Perhaps"demos" and "crippleware" could be given a lower 
>   priority in the queue than pd and/or other useful software.
I must concur.  Not only is the use of the net supposed to be "verboten" for
commercial use (granted the demo is free, but the idea is to get you to BUY
the real thing), but it just isn't in what I would consider the "Mac spirit"
to expect people to pay thru the nose for every byte of nifty software out
there.  Don't get me wrong -- there certainly is a market for commercial
software, and those people that put months of time into a software product
(when they could have made money doing something else) deserve some
remuneration for their efforts.  But to use the net for free advertising
is not right, nor is deferring "freeware" or "shareware" for this purpose.

M. A. Pasek          Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
(612) 638-7668        CNG-er-PU4-er-MNI Development       2700 N. Snelling Ave.
pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM                               Roseville, MN  55113