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Subject: Shareware (was Red Ryder)
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 16:53:39 EST
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In article <32335@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>Red Ryder is no longer a shareware package as of 10.0. You don't get this
>option anymore. If more people had paid for their shareware versions, Watson
>might not have had to make this decision....
>

Let's face it. A lot of shareware is garbage. Red Ryder may be an exception,
but I doubt it. I have seen many postings on the net and BBS's that enumerate
the bugs to be found.

Most of the shareware programs I have downloaded have been buggy, some
crashed my system.

I have noticed an interesting correlation between programs and shareware
messages: The more offensive the shareware message the worse the program
works.