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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shareware:  A specific case.
Message-ID: <369@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 16:01:40 GMT
References: <6542@ccv.bbn.COM> <94fordjm@byuvax.bitnet>
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Reply-To: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Organization: SLV Systems Group, Ben Lomond, CA
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Summary: Spare me. . . .
Disclaimer: none


In article <6542@ccv.bbn.COM> kgregory@bbn.COM (Keith D. Gregory) writes:
> [...] if you use any public-access communications system, you MUST have
> ARC to be able to upload or download files.  For this point alone, I
> would refuse to pay a shareware fee for ARC.
>
> [blah blah blah]
>
> As a consultant, my machine is my income [...]
> I use [...] ARC (only used for up and downloading), and a few other
> utilities - all of which have been on my system for years.

I'm sure that the developers of ARC will enjoy hearing that the years
of commercial uploading and downloading use you've gotten from their
product isn't worth a lousy $35!

Dick

P.S.  I'm usually able to ignore most of the self-serving and arrogant
      "paying for Shareware is {immoral | for suckers | beneath me |...}"
      crap, but occasionally my gag reflex is triggered and I have to
      say something. (grumble . . . growl . . . snarl . . . snort . . . .)

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