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From: daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD Disks
Message-ID: <2030180@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 89 17:44:12 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>I would like to discuss a subject that greatly disturbs me.  On page 73 in the
>May AMIGA Weird is a ad for Software Excitement public domain programs.  They 
>give a listing the disks that they sell and what is on them.  They also give
>a price of $7.00 per disk, and $5.00 a disk if you purchase 15 or more.  On 
	    
>for the disk.  This cost should NEVER come anywhere near $7.00!!! and then to
>Charge another $1.00 for HANDLING is insane if not illegal.

>FULL, such as Fred Fish, Amicus, and our users group does.  Any less and you
>are CLEARLY making a PROFIT at the expence of the programmer who slaved over

On page 36 of the same issue they list, "Alternate Sources of PD Software"
(The article is about Compuserve type things.)

The Fred Fish Disk Collection

-- address here ---

($7 per disk, 3 disks minimum)

There are two others, including the AMIGAWORLD PD collection, which sell for
$7.00/disk. There are two others which sell for less ($6 and $4).

It sounds as though Software Exitement is right in line with Mr. Fish and the
others.

If you want to beat the cost of BUYING the disks, I suppose you could
trundle over to the local AMIGA store and copy some of their PD stuff.
(You gotta buy the disks though. ;-) )


Dave S.