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From: samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <2377@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 16:22:32 GMT
References: <417@ddsw1.UUCP> <262@papaya.bbn.com> <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> <233@academ.UUCP> <3669@hoptoad.uucp> <470@gethen.UUCP>
Reply-To: samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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Perhaps the original developer of the shareware/freeware concept made a
killing because he did it at the right time. I do not think that it works
anymore. 

Question: What motivates a programmer to develop a large complex software
system, perhaps requiring many weeks (or even years) of development effort,
which is then posted for the world to use, for free?
-- 
	Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY
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