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From: tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: LockOUT
Message-ID: <1044@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 22:35:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 23 22:35:47 1986
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I have nothing to do with the guys who wrote the DA and the advertisement.
It bothers me slightly, but I can't see how an ad for the services of the
people who wrote the program is worse than a shareware notice.  Especially
on a net that has seen such programs as:

    MenuClock -- a shareware program that's many times as large as its
        functional component.  This is obviously meant as an incentive
	to get people to pay for it, but consider the waste of network
        bandwidth involved in transmitting the "padding".
    MacID -- a program that prints out the machine configuration on the
        screen and for this immensely hard task is labeled as shareware.
    Softworks BASIC compiler -- a shareware program that comes without
        documentation of any kind and that furthermore is deliberately
	crippled; getting a manual requires paying $30 for registration.
        I thought the whole idea of shareware was to be able to evaluate
	a program *before* paying for it.

                                        -- Thomas Newton