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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (Bill Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <4121@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 89 18:14:24 GMT
References: <6260@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (Bill Svirsky)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <6260@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>But most people haven't addressed an issue I raised.  Very briefly, the
>question is:
>
>     Should illegal use of shareware be considered a benefit?

Rahul,

I don't think that this is a point with which you need be concerned.  In
a way, you'd be attempting to police the attitudes of your net readers. 
I think you should just make sure that you won't get into any trouble by
posting shareware and not worry about the proper use of it once it gets
into our hands.

As far as shareware goes, I immediately throw away crippled versions,
and pay no attention to trial periods of xx days.  If I find the
software useful, I pay for it.  Sometime this takes me much longer than
the trial period since I may only get time to evaluate it once or twice
a week.  I'd like to see trial periods based on xx days of use instead
of xx days from 1st use.


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