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From: kudla@pawl22.pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: enforcement of Shareware
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Date: 18 Feb 88 18:49:43 GMT
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In article <42232@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Yuppie Pro) writes:
>
>Completely missed the point didn't you? If you bought 50 lottery tickets
>for a dollar and one of them paid off $5 would you say "I made $5 off the
>Lottery." ? If you would, then your statement about making money off 
>shareware would, in this limited case, be true. However, at the same time
>you would have invalidated any other english speaking persons interpretation
>of your statements because of your invalid use of the currently accepted 
>syntax. Some day, you will understand, obviously that day is not today.
>
"Some day, you will understand." Not bloody likely; they've been telling
me that for years.

The point is this: I invested zero money into my project, and since I had
fun doing it, time does NOT equal money. It sort of makes sense to me
that if you put no money into a project and get money out of it, you
are, indeed, making money. If, on the other hand, YOU were to write some-
thing, you who (presumably) makes money from his time spent programming,
THEN you would have to turn a profit to "make" money off the program,
since you value your time at $50 an hour or whatever you quoted in your
first flame.

I really think we should continue this in EMAIL; it's probably getting
real annoying to people reading it on the Net. I got mail saying this
is generally the custom, so I assume it's a good idea.

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