Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: New ideas on software piracy... Flames welcome. Message-ID: <1807@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 16:18:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1807 Posted: Wed Jul 31 16:18:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 00:41:40 EDT References: <1805@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 8 Let us not forget that even "freeware" (I prefer the name "shareware") will not continue to exist unless YOU register (and pay the nominal fee.) This way the essential person, the creator of the software, will be compensated, and continue to be motivated to support the software. This is completely within traditional capitalistic reasoning, and the only losers would be the dispensible marketing organizations. --henry schaffer