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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: StuffIt 1.5 vs. 1.40B
Message-ID: <24684@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 30 Aug 88 05:55:01 GMT
References: <53@bridge2.UUCP>
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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In article <53@bridge2.UUCP>, ngg@bridge2.UUCP (Norman Goodger) says:
> This to me is the classic case of being a cheapskate, Stuffit and its

Gee Norm, since you've been so forward as to brand me a cheapskate in
public, I guess I have to reveal my real reasons for wanting to avoid
StuffIt if it's strictly shareware.

If I were using StuffIt for my personal benefit, I have no problems paying
the very reasonable sum of $20 for such a great utility, but in all good
conscience I can't install a shareware utility on the machines at work,
not knowing how many people are going to make use of it (I would think each
regular user of a shareware utility should feel obliged to ante up
the money, even if they all run it on the same machine, no?).

The whole shareware concept needs clearer definition, what with networks
and file servers and whatnot.

So, Norm, what's your advice now?  Does my company need to pay N * $20
for N of our Macs to run StuffIt 1.5? M * $20, where M is the anticipated
number of regular users?

Mike Khaw
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