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From: petera@utcsri.UUCP (Smith)
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Subject: Re: Profiteering from Shareware/Freeware?
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 08:54:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 08:54:15 1986
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> I bring the community's attention to the advertisement in the lower left-hand
> corner of page 372 of the June issue of "PC World" magazine, in which a
> company calling itself Soft/Plus Research (operating out of a P.O. box in 
> California) is selling (?) for $6 *each* such popular shareware/freeware as

       I too have noticed these companies here in Canada. It is a bit anoying
to see companies 'selling' software that is supposed to be free or shareware
especially shareware because you do not have the choice of not paying if you
do not like the program or do not use it much. Hopefully what will happen
is that most users will know the software is free and that it can be 
obtained without cost from some local BBS that will put these leeches out
of buisness. I doubt however if we as authors of this software have a legal
leg to stand on but I'm not a laywer.

   Peter Ashwood-Smith
   University of Toronto.
> PC-Write, PC-File III, QModem, PC-Calc, DeskMates, and various and sundry PC