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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: a flame on shareware - Re: Inference engine
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 20:50:11 EST
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What's so bad about freeware (begging for money in public domain
programs)?  I would think that if a guy gets a bunch of money from
users of such a program, that he would be encouraged to do more
programs.  I am not offended by the concept - I look at it as a kind
of Gong Show for software.  Besides, the only freeware I know of does
not prohibit people from changing the source code, only from distributing
the changed source code for a profit.