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From: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware & Honesty (Was: Software (and other kinds of) copying)
Message-ID: <3154@killer.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 13:59:30 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <6649@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <469@aimt.UUCP> <308@esquire.UUCP> <39947@sun.uucp> <1091@cpocd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <1091@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>In article <39947@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>>There are two common ways to get shareware, thru
>>BBS's and on library disks. But to get the package you have to *ask* for it
>>and suddenly it isn't an unsolicited gift now is it?
>
>You're forgetting "through USENET".  This is the way I get most of my
>shareware, and it is most definitely unsolicited, though not unappreciated.
>

It's not really unsolicited -- the fact that your machine carries the sources
and binary groups, the fact that you invoke "rn" or another news reader, the
fact that you type "s filename" ... all of these are VERY comparable to 
downloading from a BBS.

But this discussion is MOOT because shareware does not usually solicit 
contributions for POSSESSION but for USE, and use never is involuntary or
unsolicited.

Wolf Paul
ihnp4!killer!wnp