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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: For fun or money? Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.153642.11518@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 17 Jun 91 15:36:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.172306.19724@uwasa.fi> <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com> <NELSON.91Jun16163515@sun.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <NELSON.91Jun16163515@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
>In article <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
>   Very often the authors of shareware are doing it for fun, and they
>   like to hear comments and suggestions, and like to be helpful.
>If they're not in it for the money, why are they asking for money?
>Shareware is NO different from commercial, proprietary software -- it
>just uses a different marketing scheme.

Umm, the difference is that they give you the choice about sending money.
Commercial packages don't.

Dylan.
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Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan
	But you're wrong Steve. You see, its only solitaire.