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From: greg@irl.ise.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Cracking games
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.200708.4278@eng.ufl.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 20:07:08 GMT
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In article <1136@voodoo.UUCP> stu@voodoo.UUCP (Stuart Liddle) writes:
>...
>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 ).

1/2 :-) noted.  IMHO, you would want to send Mr. PK money because you find
his program of use, which is the usual language of such programs.  You point
out that he has a virtual monopoly as .ZIP files seem to be the most popular.
Well, maybe this is because his program is good.  It's useful, reliable
software, and he should be encouraged to write more (or at least given a
donation as a vote of confidence).
--

Greg O'Rear
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida
Address: O'Rear@ise.ufl.edu