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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: shareware
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.213735.28142@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 21:37:35 GMT
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millerje@handel.cs.colostate.edu (Jeff Miller) writes:

>Since the topic seems to be shareware, I figured this is a good time to ask
>this question.  I have written a program (which I won't mention the name of
>yet...) that works and looks EXACTLY like an available program.  The
>difference?  The program that is available right now is shareware, and does
>not include source.  The program that I wrote I want to distribute for free
>and include the source.  Does anyone think I will have a problem, seeing
>how my program looks and acts like the other one, and yet I won't charge 
>plus I am including source?

>Please let me know what you think...

Personally I would want to see it distributed.  But remember that it is
look alikes that cause certain companies (that I don't buy anything from)
to sue others about.
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