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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware - threat or menace?
Message-ID: <571@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 19:29:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.571
Posted: Sat May  9 19:29:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 08:54:54 EDT
References: <18006@sun.uucp> <795@looking.UUCP> <2108@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: If payment is voluntary, don't complain if it doesn't come.
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In article <2108@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>                    ...It is also worth remembering that [Flugelman's
>concept of shareware] had nothing to do with any "obligation" to pay. 

And this is something that a lot of shareware authors forget.  If 
your documentation says, "this contribution is voluntary", it makes no
sense to fret when people don't pay.  Is it voluntary, or is it not?
If it isn't, you shouldn't be using the term "shareware" anyway.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi
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