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From: drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin Christmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: JR-Comm 1.02 ANSI bugfix patch/.
Keywords: robber barron  milli vanilli whiner
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Date: 17 Apr 91 18:41:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.182204.16448@unlinfo.unl.edu> 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
>Oh come on now!  You expect people to pay $30 bucks, and not send them a .39
>cent disk,a .19 cent mailer, and .50 postage?  Yeah, I guess you'll only be
>profiting $29 rather than $30.
> 
>Yes we all know how much time it took you to make it, and we all know how
>great it is, but at least have the respect for the customer.

However, Jack does have a real job. Everything (I assume) he does with JR-Comm
he does in his spare time. I think a little compensation is in order. Besides,
if JR-Comm were commercial, how many companies would send out new disks automa-
tically with every 1.0->1.1 upgrade, let alone 1.01->1.02 upgrades? Not many,
I can tell you. How many companies give you the level of support (talking to
the author of the program) that Jack does? And most of all...how much would you
be paying for JR-Comm if it were commercial?

> 
>Phil Dietz
> 
>ps. oh yeah.  How many versions are you going to make?  As long as you
>make less than 30 you'll still come out on top!

Funny concept, free enterprise.

[stepping onto net.soap.box]

With this attitude, I wonder if you have ever paid any shareware fees. Or
paid for any software. After all, many companies want $30-$40 for a game and
they don't send you free upgrades. I assume from your .signature that you are
a student and have your account at little or no cost. And with this you have
access to all sorts of goodies through anonymous FTP, etc., at cost to the tax-
payers of Nebraska. Maybe this is what breeds contempt for paying someone for
their efforts.

[stepping off net.soap.box]

>
>---- Flame Proof
>     o   __     |  o    Shield of                        Phil Dietz
>    +-- <__<    | -+-   Arrogance          231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu
                       ...damn straight...
>    /\          | / \                        University of Nebraska


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