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From: kurash@carr.dartmouth.edu (Mark Valence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware vs. Commercial
Summary: no guarantees?
Keywords: shareware commercial guarantee foobar
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Date: 6 Sep 90 15:41:16 GMT
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In article <510@6sceng.UUCP> blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>
>Commercial:
>    If I don't like software, I've already paid for it, so I'm screwed.
>
>Sounds like a big difference to me.

Have you ever heard of the 30 day guarantee?  Most good commercial
software comes with a 30 day, money-back guarantee.  You could
probably use this as a first-screening of software - if it doesn't
have a guarantee, it's probably not worth the money you'd pay for it.

(Kind of defeats the purpose of the guarantee, I know, but it's
the thought that counts, right?)

>-- 
>Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP

Mark.