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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
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Date: 10 Feb 90 06:13:57 GMT
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bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) writes:

|This "unsolicited book" mentality comes from people who think software
|should cost $2 because disks cost that.

Poor generalization.

The "unsolicited book" is an analogy, not a mentality. Shareware is a
mentality.

I don't care what software costs. That's for the author to decide. The
market will determine if it's a viable price, but "should be" really
has nothing to do with it.

Sean

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