Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!utoday!greenber
From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <1150@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 90 16:13:04 GMT
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Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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In article <4781@itivax.iti.org> dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) writes:
>
>I am not arguing against paying shareware authors, but I'm also not
>going to spend any time feeling sorry for those who complain that
>they broadcast their work, and were not rewarded by people who never
>asked to receive the work in the first place.
>

If you take a look at the stuff coming across the net, very little shareware
is actually posted.  A lot is available via SIMTEL20, naturally, but the
commercial services and the BBS services offer more shareware than the
various networks.


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