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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Crippleware
Keywords: To post or not to post
Message-ID: <1137@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 90 03:05:54 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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I'm very new to the mac, but with the computers that I have used
crippleware is nothing more than a form of advertising for a commercial
product. It can't actually be used, as in the case of PD or Shareware
software. Is this the case with MacPassword? If so, how do they justify
posting it to the net? Remember, not all netters have toll free access.
If I were to download a file of several K and then find that it was a 
press release for DBASE IV or some such I'd probably be ready to use a
little profanity myself. Of course I now know better. I wouldn't want it
repeated several hundred times. It reminds me of he profanity hearing 
scene in the movie Lenny.


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*   bob church  bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu                       *
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*  If economics isn't an "exact" science why do computers crash    *
*  so much more often than the stock market?                       *
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