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From: boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell)
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Subject: Re: Cracking games
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Date: 19 Mar 91 17:05:32 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.230807.21494@qualcomm.com> rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>Don't you love all the requests for "something that works just like (some
>commercial software package), but shareware," when you know damned well what
>they mean is "something I don't have to pay for, and that I don't have to
>be a member of a pirate board to download."

Sure, these are annoying. But shareware can also allow for some creative
solutions that I think are quite legitimate. For instance, we're developing
a commercial video game with DICE (a shareware C compiler and environment
for the Amiga), and we'll register it, all right- just as soon as we
See our code successfully up, running and selling! (-: It's possible to
have a moral sense and still get some real advantages out of the terms
under which shareware is distributed.

By the way, my next major project is a shareware game- Londonware, to
be exact. Those who fail to register will be preventing me from getting
to England for grad school and suffering eternally in hell as a result. (-:

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