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From: kudla@pawl22.pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
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Subject: Re: enforcement of Shareware
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Date: 19 Feb 88 18:43:31 GMT
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In article <2604@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Still in school eh ?
You know it.
>
>Wait till you have a kid that eats $20 bills.
I won't have a kid. I'm against the concept of "family" in general, and this
whining about "We neeeed to eeat toooooooo" is what pisses me off about
America's economic system.
>
>>programming is recreation for me and I was espousing the fact that I
>>DID make money off ShareWare. In other words, I proved you wrong.
>You call $50 making money ?  I've made more washing cars on Saturday.
So have I, but you ignored my previous line:
programming is recreation for me<<<
I don't know about you, but I *ENJOY* programming. I do it for *FUN*.
I will CONTINUE to do so in all probability till I am old and grey, but
will probably NEVER do it for a living because (1) people like myself
pirate commercial software and (2) it ceases to be fun in 9 cases out
of ten once you start getting paid to produce. 
And yes, when I get $50 out of the blue for very little effort, I do
call it making money.
>
>If you want to give softwar away, thats terrific, you're a fine human
>being. But dont think for a second that you are a commercial success
>'cause you made $50 of a piece of software.
I don't consider myself a commercial success. I never said I was; the
question was HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER MADE *ANY* MONEY FROM THE SHAREWARE
SYSTEM, not DID ANY OF YOU MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROFIT FROM THE SHAREWARE
SYSTEM.
>
>In the real world, a lot of programmers make that much an hour.
In the real world, a lot of programmers have deadlines and have to
go to work in grey flannel. In the real world, you go in at 9 and out at
5. In the real world, I couldn't have written such a shitty programme
and expected to keep my job, let alone make ANY moeny off it.

Keep trying...

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