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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Posting artwork to the net
Message-ID: <7842@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jan 91 16:16:12 GMT
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eli@smectos.CS.UMASS.EDU (Eli Brandt) sez in <25104@dime.cs.umass.edu>
|In article <4110@3comvax.MCD.3Com.Com> michaelm@vax.MCD.3Com.Com (Michael McNeil) writes:
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|[background explanation pruned with extreme prejudice]
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|>Also, we probably won't do the following at first (rather we'll
|>post the graphic files themselves), but the artist has expressed an
|>interest in the future in incorporating something akin to software
|>shareware with her art -- i.e., distributing a restricted version
|
|  This is usually not called "shareware", but "crippleware", or 
|other terms even less complimentary.

Bah! Disablist terminology! "Cripple" went out with "backwards" and
"negro".  In any case, since the restriction is deliberate, I can think
of a much more apt metaphor which also trips off the tongue more easily:

"Spayedware"

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