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From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (was Re: breaking games)
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.124632.307@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Mar 91 00:46:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.223533.646@welch.jhu.edu> <1136@voodoo.UUCP> <1991Mar23.042148.20924@uncecs.edu> <48650@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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In article <48650@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) writes:
> In the whole shareware discussion here, no one seems to have made the most
> obvious reply to the guy whining about paying the PKZIP registration fee:
> he claimed that you had to have it to use BBSes.
> 
> Ain't true. BBSes could use public domain compression programs instead.
> But they don't. Why? PKZIP is better. Nobody's forcing us to use it,
> we consider it *worth* it.
 
Just to add my two cents worth (I can't actually - NZ no longer has 2c coins):
This guy doesn't have to use PKZIP *at all*.  He can download .ZIP's from a
BBS (or the net) and unzip them with DEZIP - a PD unzipper.  If he uses Phil's
excellent package anymore then he should register it.

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