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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposed New Newsgroup - comp.sources.shareware
Message-ID: <22149.25ce9bf1@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 15:42:09 GMT
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In article <1990Feb5.095605.25010@iam.unibe.ch>, salvis@iam.unibe.ch
 (Hans Salvisberg) writes:
> I agree about crippled demo software (which really has nothing to do with
> shareware), but in my experience most of the best shareware programs are
> of the "pay if you use it" kind. The "donation is appreciated" kind is 
> usually just utilities. 

Hmmmm. You mean utilities like PKZIP for the IBM PC?  From the
shareware screen for PKZIP:

>If you find PKZIP fast, easy, and convenient to use, a registration of
>$25 would be appreciated.  If you send $47 or more you will receive,
>when available, the next version of the PKZIP, PKUNZIP, and PKSFX
>programs.  Please state the version of the software that you currently
>have.  Send check or money order to: ...

Right.  Just a dumb old utility. :-)  Or Vernon Buerg's stuff, like LIST
and ARCE.  In the PC world there are a LOT of shareware programs that
don't DEMAND payment.  I suspect that you would be hard pressed to
find a PC user on the net that doesn't have some sort of shareware
archiver that is "donation is appreciated."  At least PKZIP, PKPAK,
and ARCE fall into this catagory.  Are you suggesting that software
like this shouldn't be distributed via usenet?  Certainly a lot of
people on the net have benefited by the distribution of programs like
these. 
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