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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <4800@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 89 17:31:41 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <2038@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> davis@ee.rochester.edu (Al Davis) writes:
>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.
>
>NO demos.  NO free commercial advertising.


Yes!  A much better criteria.  Crippleware is not useful *except* as 
advertising!  Commercial software with a "free evaluation period" is not
nearly as bad -- you still only have a moral obligation to pay since no
license/purchase agreement was ever signed.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
Standard Disclaimers Apply
(I do *register* the shareware programs I use)