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Subject: Re: Shareware - threat or menace?
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Date: Tue, 12-May-87 02:57:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 12 02:57:18 1987
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In article <2656@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> walton@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Steve Walton) writes:
>[Bill Volk of Aegis says:]
>"Look, it's simple economics.  If the only value of the product is on
>the magnetic media, then it will be copied...[points out you need
>support, updates, distribution, etc. in purchase price, then]  Sonix
>is $79.95, for which you get a 250+ page manual.  How many copies do
>you think will be pirated?"

Considering the amount of stink that's being raised *already* about
the pirating of SONIX, my answer would probably be "billyuns and
billyuns". 

With a tip of the Farren hat to Carl Sagan,
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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"