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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community.
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Date: 26 May 90 07:10:57 GMT
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In article <1401@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes: 
>Shareware isn't evil, the prices of most commerical products are, why 
>else would Sharware exist, or piracy for that matter?
>What's truely criminal is the profit margins of some of the applications 
>available today.  

>In most every industry we have a drop in price as the manufacturer recovers 
>the initial costs for startup and development.  But not software, each new 
>version brings with it a higher price tag.  
>And there's no sane explanation for this maddness other than greed, 
>reprehensible, utterly shameless greed.

Gee, from your previous postings, I thought you actually had a brain :-) 
You really blew it with this one.  I guess there are four possible cases:

1. You wrote the message while you were stoned :-) (let's give it a 50%)
2. You are very naive (let's give it a 90%)
3. You are thinking to move to the Soviet Union or even better the People's
   Republic of China (another 50% probability)
4. You've just been released by the hospital as a manic depressive, after
   being found shouting " Lotus is Evil, Lotus is Evil" :-)

I won't repeat what has been already argumented against your insane rumblings,
except that you should read Chucks' reposting in a moment in which you're 
sober :-) Read and learn.

>Me, I'll support a Shareware product or directly marketed product over one 
>that has been defiled by a commerical publisher any day.

Oh, how nice. You're doing a public service, right? :-)  Or are you looking
for santification?

>  They are the true scum of our industry.

Gee, if trying to make a living off a product, continue supporting it
with timely updates and upgrades, provide a technical support line, 
and provide low-priced upgrades is being scum, then I'm scum as all other
commercial developers.

Jack, you're disturbed. You need some help :-)

-- Marco
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