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From: jhv@houxu.UUCP (James Van Ornum)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Profiteering from Shareware/Freeware?
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Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 12:51:36 EDT
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I wonder if copying floppies with public domain software on them and selling 
those copies at 5 to 6 dollars each really is profiteering!!!  The service 
these companies provide is the duplication service; and in some cases, 
providing some level of documentation (or description, or indexing) for the 
software.  Some also weed out duplicate copies or obsolete versions.  
Granted, this software is also available on bulletin board systems, but for
some people, the convenience of ordering vs randomly searching through a
bulletin board is worth the small price.