Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!utoday!greenber
From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposed New Newsgroup - comp.sources.shareware
Message-ID: <1208@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 14:50:02 GMT
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davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  It's nice that you assume this group will be created, but there are a
>few of us who feel it is a solution to a non-problem. Demos and
>crippleware shouldn't be on the net. Shareware serves a valid business
>purpose (at least my management thinks so) and does not have the volume
>for a hierarchy of its own (and putting all the shareware for all
>systems in one group is, to say it politely, impractical).

Shareware is, most specifically, not demoware or crippleware. It is
fully functional software, distributed in an alternative manner.  Whether
or not Usenet should be included as part of this distributive distribution
media is the question.  I, biased as i am as a shareware author, think it
has a place on Usenet, but in its own newsgroup.

But, I do agree with you that, having all OS's and architectures in one
single newsgroup will be impractical in the medium and long term.  Perhaps
to split it off later would be appropriate.



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