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From: resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Cracking games
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.173142.3907@netcom.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:31:42 GMT
References: <27442@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <31600014@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
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In article <31600014@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser) writes:
>
> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) /  6:09 pm  Mar 13, 1991 /
>>I AM NOT PIRATING SOFTWARE!!!  I HAVE LEGAL SOFTWARE COMPLETELY ON MY
>>SYSTEM (well, actually, one program isn't, but it's just unregistered
>>shareware).  I am interested in this information for piracy reasons, since
>>I am a programmer and understand the problems of piracy!
>
>"just unregistered shareware"
> ^^^^
>So, "unregistered shareware" isn't piracy, huh?  It's attitudes like this that
>that cause "commercial" packages to put anti-piracy code into their games that
>cause you the irritation of constantly looking up keywords in the documents.
>
>It's attitudes like these that cause me, "just" a shareware author, irritation
>at pirates like you.  "Unregistered shareware", when used beyond the test
>period, IS PIRACY.

Having been one who has, over the past 5 years, distributed many shareware
items, from terminal emulators, to screen management libraries, I have
not recieved ONE RED CENT for my work. This would probably bother me 
a hell of a lot more, but I never wrote these things to make money, I wrote
'em for me. Being a long time BBS operator, and therefore a distribution
channel for shareware programs, I'm sure as hell not going to send everyone
who wants a few bucks for their utilities. Not when I am footing the bill 
of having a semi-dedicated machine running 24 hours daily, eating a few bucks
worth of electricity and many hours worth of frustration, all in the name
of providing a distribution channel with no return on *my* investment.
Maybe that's a shitty attitude, but until someone comes along and gives me 
incentive to act otherwise, tough.

My bottom line, is that, after having registered several shareware packages,
and recieving NO support, or other gratification for my money, combined with
a zero return on my time/resource investment in shareware, it's not worth
my while to "register" a shareware package. 


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