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- From: dparvaz@deafnet.com (Dan Parvaz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 02:24:00 GMT
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- | Shareware is a blight upon humanity
-
- Aren't you exaggerating just a *bit*? However, since you bring the point
- up, why are shareware programmers a "blight", and not people who insist on
- using other people's property without permission? That's what it means to
- use a piece of shareware beyond the license period. Rationalize all you
- want, but that's the bottom line.
-
- | by definition,
- |shareware authors are amateur programers who program for fun, and not
- |to put food on their table.
-
- Ahem. Just about all the shareware authors I know (particularly the
- Newton crowd) are professional developers, consultants, etc. Hardy
- Macia? Steve Weyer? "amateur programers (sic)"? Bite your tongue.
-
- | Why not be a freeware programmer instead?
-
- I'm afriad that's our business, not yours. Fact is, a lot of shareware
- programmers *do* release freeware. But that really has to be our
- decision, not to be dictated at the whim at someone who seems to glory in
- his petty larceny.
-
- Dan Parvaz.
-