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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <6939@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 88 00:14:43 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> <1009@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1009@ubc-vision.UUCP> by majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka):
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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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Answer 3:  The programmer wrote the program for some specific purpose; after
the program has fulfilled that purpose, the programmer decides to see if
anyone else might be able to use it.  Since the program has already "paid for
itself", the programmer sees no reason to charge for it.  This motivates many
of my (personal) sources postings.
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, Moderator of comp.sources.misc
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