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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: shareware
Message-ID: <1269@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 15:23:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1269
Posted: Wed Oct 23 15:23:40 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 04:21:39 EDT
References: <132@mit-eddie.UUCP> <690@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <690@dcl-cs.UUCP> craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie) writes:
>>I will add my voice to Erik's for the banning of shareware funding
>>requests in netnews.  USENET is for non-profit use only.
>>I suggest that in the future anyone who has any shareware to offer post
>>an article to net.sources.whatever announcing the availability of the
>>product, and giving yourself as the contact, with net address, phone #
>
>A very difficult area, would this not amount to advertising ? Let's keep
>it completely clean and try to keep shareware out totally.
>

Can we let people announce that they have some software _to_give_away_
and then, if they *do* send out copies they can include a "Hey, I spent
some time on this; if you like it, if you'd like to get updates, etc, etc,
I sure would appreciate it if you'd send $xx to me at the following address..."

That way it will be given freely, received and used, and if the recipient uses
it *and wants to support the developer* he can, and not feel guilty if he
doesn't. That's the condition the developer will have to accept to use the
netnews/e-mail as an announcement and distribution channel.

keith
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