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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe
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Date: 29 Aug 90 16:02:57 GMT
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In article <1990Aug29.052224.24927@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:
>Granted, I'm sure most people, including myself never
>paid the shareware for StuffIt 1.5.1 anyways

I'm sure this is exactly why the new stuffit is commercial.

>I for one am COMPLETELY POSITIVELY 100% AGAINST supporting a commercial
>program to replace the much needed shareware StuffIt program.

But not so completely and positively that you would pay Ray for his
shareware program?

Money talks, folks.  Ray Lau did us all a great service with StuffIt.
I for one was happy to pay him the measly $15 he was asking at the time.

While I can see the rationale behind an occasional user not paying,
that selfsame occasional user (and therefore occasional deadbeat)
shouldn't complain about the emergence of a commercial standard.

Besides, such people can pirate the commercial version as easily as
the shareware version, so what's the big deal?
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner