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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: MOST Shareware is junk (No It Isn't)
Message-ID: <818@newave.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 02:57:36 GMT
References: <154598@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <154598@pyramid.pyramid.com> lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com writes:
> In article <3111@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is writes:
> > Well, I am the author of a fairly successful anti-virus program [...]

> MOST SHAREWARE IS JUNK!   Too bad so many authors refuse to
> acknowledge this and try to understand WHY users feel this
> way...might improve the breed.

You must be using the wrong kind of computer.  There is an incredible
amount of truely great shareware programs available for the Mac.  There
are also a lot of equally great freeware, beerware, and hapiware programs.
I bet there is no "Net Bunny" for the peece.

> Put any dates in the code, mess with my AUTOEXEC.BAT or
> CONFIG.SYS files and I will swiftly remove your product from
> my machine.

Yes, that confirms it.  No real computer needs ".BAT" or ".SYS" files.

-john-

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