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From: davis@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Al Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
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Date: 18 Mar 89 23:44:46 GMT
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But some of the commercial stuff that says "distribute freely" is DEMOS:
crippled stuff not intended to be useful, intended only to sell the product.

Some is slightly crippled, intended to be useful to only the non-serious
user.  Example: restricted size of something.  It hogs just as much disk
space, net space, net time, etc.  (The PSPICE demo is one of these.)  They
give these out as ADVERTISING.  Posting something like this is FREE
ADVERTISING.  (Or is it reader subsidized advertising.)

Some stuff made by commercial software houses, and posted, is stuff they
made for their own internal use, can't sell because it is not their market,
and want to share.  YES, we want this.

NO demos.  NO free commercial advertising.