Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Summary: Pay for shareware, keep it flowing. Message-ID: <1134@utoday.UUCP> Date: 7 Jan 90 15:56:41 GMT References: <137@sneezy.tcom.stc.co.uk> <15398@well.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 33 In article <15398@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: > >Of course. I've never seen any shareware that claims you have a legal >obligation to pay; the claimed obligation is moral. And since I, like >you, do not agree with this obligation, I would gleefully use newsclip >and not pay if I felt the slightest need for it. As a shareware author, allow me to be the first to tell you that your attitude sucks? The reason I come out with shareware is because of the honest people in the world -- they send in the bucks that allow me to continue to develop software. There are people like Larry Wall who opt to produce freeware - and that's great. The net owes their thanks to Larry and those like him. Some of my stuff, though, does have a price tag on it. My free stuff you can use without paying for. But, you're obliged, ethically, to pay for the shareware. Don't like it, then don't it. That's pretty simple. But, if you're going to proclaim you're dishonest, unethical and willing to use another's intellectual property without paying for it (that's called theft), then please do the shareware authors of the world a favor? Keep your ethics, or lack thereof, to yourself? It disgusts those of us who *do* rely on the honest and ethical people of the world.. Ross -- Ross M. Greenberg, Technology Editor, UNIX Today! greenber@utoday.UUCP 594 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10016 Voice:(212)-889-6431 BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212 To subscribe, send mail to circ@utoday.UUCP with "Subject: Request"