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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Profiteering from Shareware/Freeware?
Message-ID: <83@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 20:29:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 24 20:29:38 1986
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Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <791@houxu.UUCP> jhv@houxu.UUCP (James Van Ornum) writes:
>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.

Actually, it is probably not only more convenient, but cheaper.  I have
a library of (currently) 26 disks that I support for the Amiga.  In the
last six months I have spent well over $1,000 in telephone charges, most
of which was associated with gathering probably only about 40% of the total
software available on diskette.  It has also consumed many hundreds
of hours of my time to sort, test, and polish the software.  If not for
the generous contributions of people who have ordered complete sets
of my library, even when they already had access to a set to copy for
"free", I would probably have stopped after about disk number 5...

-Fred

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