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From: stu@voodoo.UUCP (Stuart Liddle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Cracking games
Message-ID: <1136@voodoo.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 15:24:35 GMT
References: <31600014@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> <1991Mar18.223533.646@welch.jhu.edu> <1991Mar19.172138.4340@Solbourne.COM>
Organization: BoGART To You Buddy, Bellevue, WA
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In article <1991Mar19.172138.4340@Solbourne.COM> imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh) writes:
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>*** SOAP BOX ON ***
>  [stuff deleted about shareware and expected registration of same]
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>Anybody have any idea how many unregistered, heavily used PKZIP copies
>are floating around?????
In a recent article in our local (free) computer rag , _Puget_Sound_Computer_
User_, there was an article about PKZIP.  In it there was a quote that I found
rather interesting:  

"Zip is neither commerical, shareware nor public-domain
software;  it is a copyrighted program free for all to use.  There is no
fixed cost, merely a request for a donation."

Can anyone verify that this is indeed true?

Now this would seem to imply that no "registration" is required except maybe
by commercial users.  My question in addition to this is why would anyone
want to send in any money to Mr. PK since in order to do any downloading
with any BBS you need Zip (or at least unZip)?  Wow, what a neat deal, get
a virtual monopoly by having .ZIP files be the only ones available for down-
load and then ask for a donation for the use of the program to uncompress
those files!! (1/2 ;-) here ).


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