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From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
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Subject: Re: Summary of ShareWare experiences (unfair characterization)
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Date: 15 Feb 91 17:11:36 GMT
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In article <1CE00001.s1x5ye@tbomb.ice.com>,   writes...
>In article <990@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>>   That whole post smacked of a confidence scam.  He comes off as trying to
>> help enlighten those considering to market their work via shareware to the
>> unviability of it and then "offers" to publish it for them, jeez...
> 
>As for the original posting, I was disappointed with the bait and
>switch. It would have been more tolerable if the article had been
>a little more objective and thorough.

This is NOT a fair representation!

I read the original posting, the follow-up summary, and also a text 
file containing the original e-mail messages summarized by the author,
Joe Burkley (burkley@cod.NOSC.MI).  The only passage that contains an
"offer to publish" was an excerpt from a mail message to Mr. Burkley
from Tony Scott of KarmaSoft, Inc. (tscott@isis.cs.du.edu).  It was 
a verbatim quote, as were all the other excerpts used in the summary.
Having read the whole (52K) text file, I would also like to point out that
Mr. Burkley put in a considerable effort with his text editor to get 
the summary into a concise, readable form.

There was absolutely no "scam" or "bait and switch" associated with 
Mr. Burkley's posting, which was one of the most interesting that 
I have ever found.  He followed net.ettiquette to the letter, and
did us all a considerable service.  Even the trivial points that were
disputed (such as the definition of freeware, etc.) were distilled
from the responses to Mr. Burkley's original request for information.

Please keep posting, Joe!

-- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
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