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From: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <88151@felix.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 00:52:01 GMT
References: <6191@bsu-cs.UUCP> <592@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: art@felix.UUCP (Art Dederick)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <592@marob.MASA.COM> manes@marob.MASA.COM (Steve Manes) writes:
  ...a bunch of crap I have deleted (flames are most welcome).

All members of ASP should be taken out and shot, or better yet,
boiled in oil.  I wish to God this thing called "shareware" had never
been invented.  I see so many "Public Domain" sources that end up
being shareware I want to scream.  After looking around and
downloading a software package (costs me money just to do this, phone
charges, CIS charges etc.) I then discover I must pay for the software
I was lead to believe was PD.  It goes double when I send away for a
set of floppies and find out the same thing.  Gee, just had a thought,
maybe I can sue for false advertising on the part of the
distributors (Hey Compu$erve, like a lawsuit? :-)

If I had either the money or the power, I would halt this sh*t right
now.  Make some law that requires any distributor of shareware to
notify possible recipients that what he is paying for is not "PD" but,
in fact, you must pay another charge to keep and use it. In addition,
I would have CIS services like Compu$erve banned from distributing
shareware, at least separate what is PD and what is shareware (I'd
never waste time in the shareware libraries).

My biggest complaint is that PD listings include shareware and I've
been burned too many times to take it any longer.  Next time I see a
PD listing, I'm going to burn IT instead.  The only alternative is to
treat all shareware showing up in PD forums as "PD" and ignore the
"beg screens".

Maybe I should lobby in c.b.i.p.d etc. for NO shareware
unless its listed as such in the heading (subject line maybe).
I wonder what RD would say about this, listening?

The bottom line, commercial software is still commercial software,
it does not belong on Usenet.  Announcements of the existence of such
software and the way to get it is ok.

Now where did I put that asbestos jumpsuit?  There it is.  Ok I'm
ready, let her rip!!

Art Dederick
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