Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!csun10!wjin From: wjin@csun10.cs.uh.edu (Woochang Jin) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Love's Labours Lost (was Re: Shareware is junk) Keywords: Shareware is not a junk. Message-ID: <1991May2.062451.24816@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 2 May 91 06:24:51 GMT References: <1991Apr30.174659.9082@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1991May01.022439.16596@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1991May1.153211.21245@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: wjin@cs.uh.edu(Woochang Jin) Organization: University of Houston Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: csun10.cs.uh.edu Let us be generous to the shareware writers (Well, in fact, they are generous to share their programs). 1PASS is just the first version. I also found that 1PASS is not really a matured program but I think that it is still useful. I exepect that the author would release 1PASS2 which might be more useful. 'Junk' is relative. To me, Window 3.0 ($99 paid) is a junk. I don't use it. On the other hand, EmTeX (a free typsetting tool TeX ported to DOS by E.Matt) is the most valuable program to me. Also, Some of the people who use McWrite intensively, might feel that EmTeX is a junk. I think that almost sharewares are useful in some particular situations, for some particular users. If there is one thing that I would like to ask shareware programmers, it would be that when they announce/upload their programs they would document clearly (and hopefully shortly) what it is, what it does, how, and why, for whom, when it is useful. ____ ____ ____ ____________________________________________________________ | | | | | | Woochang Jin (wjin@cs.uh.edu) Office - PGH574, PGH592 | | | |__| | Grad, System Administration. Wed,Fri: 9:00-1:00 | | | | Department of Computer Science 713-749-1748 (office) \ |---| |--| | University of Houston 713-747-2130 (home) \____/|__| |__| ____________________________________________________________