Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!quiche!calvin!depeche From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Question! Message-ID: <2640@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 27 Mar 90 04:03:03 GMT References: <1478@electro.UUCP> Reply-To: depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 26 Ignac says: > > Do you Usenet folks feel that the posting of our demos of our products here > is a worthwhile endevour, or should we stop? > Are Usenet folks REALLY care all that much if a commercial endorsement is > made in the demo?? I feel that software posted on the net should be judged solely on its usefulness. If usenet people like the damn thing, why deprive us of a demo simply because it endorses a product? By this logic, we could censor messages posted by people who work at commercial institutions, because their content may be construed as commerical, even they just contain info about how their products work! Well, since I am happy and satisfied a LEGAL OWNER of QuickST II, and would strongly recommend the non-demo version without reservations, my opinion may be biased, but I think I would say the same thing about any other product - the simple fact is, the more useful stuff which is available on the net, the better. To be honest, if his original shareware demo versions were never posted to the net, I wouldn't have known enough about the product to buy it in the first place, so it is in a sense, serving the interests of Branch Always. To this, I say: WHO CARES? just my two dollars worth...