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Subject: Re: Profiteering from Shareware/Freewar
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Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 16:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 16:45:00 1986
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!ddrex    Jun 27 15:45:00 1986


Re: selling shareware/pd software...

> 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 PC-Write, PC-File III, QModem, PC-Calc,
> DeskMates, and various and sundry PC games.  "All orders please
> include $3 shipping & handling."  They accept Visa and MasterCard and
> even have a toll-free order line.  They also advertise such quantity
> deals as 6 programs for $34.95 and 10 programs for $49.95.
>
> Any comments as to the legality/ethicality of this venture?
 
If the copyright notice in those packages forbids it, the authors
should have plenty of recourse, and I hope they take those jerks to
the cleaners. Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of people out
there who don't know about freeware/shareware/public-domain, nor
bulletin boards where they can obtain those for the price of a phone
call. Many users groups will copy those for just the cost of the disk.