Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!rutgers!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 90 13:05:02 GMT References: <1990Feb17.135833.13612@iam.unibe.ch> <14231@s.ms.uky.edu> <1990Feb23.155338.28418@iam.unibe.ch> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 21 In article <1990Feb23.155338.28418@iam.unibe.ch> salvis@iam.unibe.ch (Hans Salvisberg) writes: >[...] everyone on the shareware side implicitely assumes that >there may be a piece of shareware that might actually be valuable to you, >so that you'd rather pay the registration fee than delete it from your >disk, if you were forced to choose between these two alternatives. And >the whole point is that given you are using such a piece of shareware, >it would be fair to pay the registration fee, even if you are not forced >to. This is a clear, concise, and understandable position, and one with which I agree. You may not be forced to pay for the shareware you use, but it's the Right Thing to do. Me? I voted with my wallet: this discussion led me to go buy a copy of FluShot+, Ross Greenberg's program. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Free the DC-10!