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From: richard@pegasus.uucp (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.140220.6168@pegasus.uucp>
Date: 8 Feb 90 14:02:20 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@pegasus.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>
>So?  Stand up, shout, scream, make your view known.  But don;t use shareware
>unless you pay for it.  You;re entitled to your view, me to mine.  You're
>entitled to rant and rave about the evils of shareware, but I'm still
>entitled to get my registration fee from the ethical users out there.  Those
>who use the code without paying for it are unethical.
>

By demanding payment for software that you have distributed freely
you are acting unethically.

Therefore I would use your software (if it was any good) and never
ever pay you a penny -- in protest of your unethical, and probably
illegal approach to marketing.

I urge others to do the same.

If you were to request payment rather than demand it I would then
feel obliged to pay you (if your software was any good, and I needed
it.)

Since you're legal arguments are all falling apart you're starting to
attack us on bogus "ethical" grounds -- personally I find this
reprehensible.

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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.uucp
			richard%pegasus.uucp@nosc.mil
			richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu