Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware Message-ID: <1135@utoday.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 90 22:33:47 GMT References: <1134@utoday.UUCP> <15410@well.UUCP> Reply-To: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 22 In article <15410@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: > >>Ignoring the worthless moralizing, this is incorrect, due to being an >>incomplete statement. I'll complete it for you. The vast majority of >>the support you receive for your software is in the form of the free >>distribution you have come to depend on, exploit, and ignore. But it's >>not really free -- nothing is. Actually, the vast majority of my registrations come people who have purchased a disk containing one of my products from a disk distributor who has asked my permission to distribute my product on a disk that he or she sells and makes a profit from. The real world may be different than you imagine. -- 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"