Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.143410.5636@druid.uucp>
Date: 26 Feb 90 14:34:10 GMT
References: <1235@utoday.UUCP> <17923@rpp386.cactus.org> <15166@bfmny0.UU.NET> <34268@watmath.waterloo.edu> <15179@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1268@utoday.UUCP> <15191@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1288@utoday.UUCP> <1990Feb26.132435.19063@robohack.UUCP>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1990Feb26.132435.19063@robohack.UUCP> woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>Hmm... I wonder if UseNet simply doesn't have the group of readers
>who need-want-use-buy traditional (i.e. PC/binary) shareware.  I know
>well that lots of PC users are on the net (several on my machine
>alone).  But perhaps they turn to other channels for shareware.
>UseNet certainly won't be the fastest and easiest channel for many of
>these people.
>
Or perhaps UseNetters are more discriminating about the software they use?
I haven't tried much shareware but so far I havein't kept anything I have
tried (With the exception of PCBOSS Windows which I paid for.)  Most of the
stuff I tried wwas clumsy, buggy or useless.  I have usually wound up writing
what I need or modifying someone else's source.

I have always thought that UseNet was for sharing ideas and helping each
other with problems.  Shareware fits a different model.  One side of the
shareware group writes software for sale and the other side uses it.  Both
sides get something from UseNet without returning anything to it.  They
just see UseNet as a free distribution channel.

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