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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware & Honesty (really: unsolicited?)
Message-ID: <2427@crash.cts.com>
Date: 28 Jan 88 11:36:33 GMT
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           My policy with regaurd to shareware is that if I ever find it
        usefull I'll send the author a reasonable contribution.  For instance,
        I have vt100 and Handshake on disk somewhare (I don't know if either
        or both are share or freeware), but never use either one, because I
        also have a (PR) copy of Diga!, which I find easier to use.  On the
        other hand I am preparing to send the authors of ARC a contribution
        of $20, as I use this program quite often.


           I would prefer to figure out some low-cost distribution mechanism
        that is workable for all involved.  We (Haitex) figure money cannot be
        made on and program selling for less than $15 retail.  By the time
        you add up all the basic costs thats it.  And the programmer would
        make next to nothing (as would everyone else).



                                                                Wade.


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