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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Profiteering from Shareware/Freeware
Message-ID: <31@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 13:13:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.31
Posted: Thu Jun 26 13:13:53 1986
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Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Before anyone else starts getting hot about these companies 
"ripping off" shareware developers, I'd like to note that
in the cases I know of, the shareware developer has explicitly
licensed the company to advertise and sell their product
nationally.  They still sell the shareware thru normal 
channels, but now they can also handle the case of the
person who wants, say, 20 copies of the newest PC-Write, with
printed out manuals.  A number of the BrownBag software products 
are like this, for example -- repackaged and licensed shareware.
Many people are more interested in saving time than in saving
money (after all, "time IS money ...").
-- 
"As head of all criminal activity here in Casablanca, I am
a prominent and respected citizen." -- Sidney Greenstreet
Rick Keir -- just down from the Oyster Tank -- UWisc - Madison
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