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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shareware:  A specific case.
Message-ID: <5@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 02:17:17 GMT
References: <6542@ccv.bbn.COM> <94fordjm@byuvax.bitnet> <369@slvblc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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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.

The point you seem to be making is that you pay only for programs which 
you don't really need; programs you MUST have are not worth paying for.

That seems to be lacking in the little grey cells !? ...

Are programmers and software publishers only allowed to charge for
useless programs? If a program is useful, and therefore much in demand
they should give it away?

Come on already, you know better than that!

Wolf Paul
wnp@dcs.UUCP