Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!manes
From: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <2530@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 09:19:00 GMT
References: <7606@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
Lines: 15

In article <7606@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes:
>Why would a musician ever play for free?  To make the world a slightly
>better place, maybe?

Speaking as a professional musician I don't know of any musicians who
play for free as a matter of choice or philosophy.  Even the original
Freeware policy explanation states that it wasn't an experiment in altruism
but mainly one of economics.  The cost of commercially marketing a program
is just too high for most independent programmers.

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