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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Profiteering from Shareware/Freeware?
Message-ID: <821@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Jul-86 20:34:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul  5 20:34:46 1986
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen)
Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Before we get too upset at people "selling" public domain software,
think about the $6 price you quoted. That's the going price for PC-BLUE
and SIG/M software, too. Looking at what it would cost a small company
to duplicate and mail a disk, I somehow doubt that there's much profit
there. Having looked on lots of bulletin boards for some software, I
can assure you that in some cases it's a better bargan for the user to
"buy" it than to get it "free" for the price of three or four phone
calls, even if you value your time at zero.

There are lots of people making a buck they shouldn't, but I would not
be offended at someone offering to duplicate any of the software I've
released. Public domain doesn't imply that the supplier is required to
distribute at his/her own expense.

Above is my opinion only.
-- 
	-bill davidsen

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