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From: bradn@tekig3.PEN.TEK.COM (Bradford Needham)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Paying for Shareware (put up or shut up)
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Date: 12 Feb 90 18:55:46 GMT
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This is all loads of fun, but won't anyone admit that all this is just
speculation until some shareware developer actually wins a suit against
a user?  Without that precedent, this discussion is only philosophical*.

Since it's just speculation (and bordering on a religious war), how
'bout moving to misc.legal and letting comp.sources.d get back to
talking about sources?


Brad Needham
bradn@tekig3.pen.tek.com

*which is not to say that philosophical and ethical issues aren't important --
abortion vs. choice, for example, is an important ethical and legal issue;
yet I (thankfully!) don't see anybody discussing it on comp.sources.d.