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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (was Re: breaking games)
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 14:44:09 GMT
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In article <1991Mar24.124632.307@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) writes:
>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.

I don't follow this argument.  PKZIP is free - read the license you see when
you run "PKZIP -l".  I don't register other free software, so why should I
register this one?  Presumably DEZIP was written by someone - would you
say I should send money to them, even though they're not asking for it?

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu