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From: gandreas@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Glenn Andreas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Your Favorite Shareware
Message-ID: <839@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 22 Mar 89 15:16:25 GMT
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Reply-To: gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (Glenn Andreas)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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In article <86.242798FA@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> Raines.Cohen@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Raines Cohen) writes:
>
> To: Robin Goldstone
> Re: ShareWare ordering
> 
>Robin -
> 
>The question is, do you really want to order from EduCorp, when there are
>other sources that charge less, and get permission of the shareware authors,
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^

It's worse than that.  In the most recent addition to their catalog, I was
surprised to discover my game Theldrow in it.  Now, as an opening screen it
says that this software is copyrighted.  In the online help is the details
of the licensing, which basically states that you can not charge and make
money to distribute it - which is exactly what they do.  And they can't say
that they never ran it, since there was a screen snapshot in there.  So it
seems that they can't read (I set up the copyright specifically with people
like this in mind).

Needless to say, I called them up.  "Didn't we ask you permission to use
your software?  Oh, we usually try to."  I had them pull it from their disks
(the manager made is sound like this is a not uncommon occurance).  Makes
you wonder about "EDUCOMP warrents that disks contain the listed items".
They also listed it as shareware (which it isn't), so comparing it to
"commercial games costing many times more" doesn't mean much (unless they
mean how much is is costing you to get it from THEM).

(BTW, I should be posting version 2.2 this weekend, but alas, I haven't
finished the second scenario, and I'll post that separately when I do)

>and dedicate their income to non-profit purposes, and fill disks "to the 
>brim", and thoroughly check for updates and virii and system SW compatability?
> 
>And why not just FTP the files from any of the numerous Mac archives out 
>there?
> 
> -- Raines Cohen
> SYSOP, BMUG BBS
>
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