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From: majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <1009@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 20:19:08 GMT
References: <417@ddsw1.UUCP> <262@papaya.bbn.com> <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> <233@academ.UUCP> <3669@hoptoad.uucp> <470@gethen.UUCP> <2377@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka)
Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <2377@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>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?

Answer 1: The programmer is a student, and developed the software on
university hardware.  Regulations forbid it being sold.

Answer 2: The programmer doesn't believe in fleecing people.

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Marc Majka