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From: dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v08i116: ozshare1, shareware utils (part 01/10)
Keywords: Overpriced Shareware
Message-ID: <6419@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 19:44:14 GMT
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rusbara2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan) writes:

[some talk about overpriced shareware deleted]

>Also, even though I was against it in the past, maybe there should be
>some arbitrary price limit for posting here.

I just have one thing to say and one thing to ask.

Speaking:

c.b.i.p.d (pronounced "C-Bipped" :-) is a public forum, am I not right?
Then certainly we can't say "no software over US $X". Like someone said,
it's a free market....

Asking:

I learned from my shareware poll a few weeks back that some people
consider shareware programs in c.b.i.p to be "unsolicited software"
and, therefore, they don't have to pay for what gets dumped in their mailbox.
Do the authors of shareware posted to c.b.i.p realize this? Do the
authors even *know* that their stuff is being posted?

Perhaps c.b.i.p should contain public domain and freeware packages only.

David L. Sims			Go Reds! Beat Oakland!
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