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- From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: 8 Mar 96 00:56:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- >>>>>> "Sanjay" == Sanjay S Vakil <sanj@athena.mit.edu> writes:
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- >Sanjay> I don't understand why people feel that
- >Sanjay> crippleware/timeoutware is such a crime. Sure, it's less
- >Sanjay> ideal than 'true' shareware, but the market has expanded way
- >Sanjay> beyond people you can 'trust' to send in shareware fees. For
- >Sanjay> example, I'm *sure* that there are more than 24 people out
- >Sanjay> there enjoying Mahjongg, but the registrations have pretty
- >Sanjay> much halted. This is a powerful push towards crippling my
- >Sanjay> next release.
- >Sanjay> sanj
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- The real question is *why* people insist on writing
- shareware. Shareware is a blight upon humanity -- by definition,
- shareware authors are amateur programers who program for fun, and not
- to put food on their table. Why not be a freeware programmer instead?
- You have already discovered that shareware isn't very profitable -- at
- least in writing freeware you get a warm fuzzy feeling of helping
- society. In the UNIX world shareware is basically non-existant and
- freeware is plentiful -- gcc, emacs, TeX, the X Window System, hell,
- even whole UNIX-compatible operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD
- are freeware. Why not write freeware yourself? Are you really saying
- that your Mahjongg program was harder to write than emacs? If not, why
- do you demand money for it while no money is required for emacs?
-