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- From: flatfoot@isns1.shasta.com (flatfoot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 16:53:15 GMT
- Organization: Sacramento Network Access
- Message-ID: <1946.6642T526T1876@isns1.shasta.com>
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- F.F. replys to:
- >>>>>>> "Sanjay" == Sanjay S Vakil <sanj@athena.mit.edu> writes:
-
- >>Sanjay> I don't understand why people feel that
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- stuff deletted
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- >>Sanjay> much halted. This is a powerful push towards crippling my
- >>Sanjay> next release.
- >>Sanjay> sanj
-
- >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?
-
-
- What a selfish, stupid answer to someone that is contributing to the
- betterment of the system!!!!! Why do not all the non-commercial software
- people stop producing these basicly non profitable programs and see what
- happens. The Amiga would be gone. If you think you are getting screwed go buy
- all commercial software.
-
- If a person's efforts do not work or are over priced the free market
- enterprise system will solve the problem. Not free loaders like you!!!
-
- May prosperity and god bless all you shareware developers!!!
-
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- I FOUND THE PROBLEM WITH MY COMPUTER
- IT'S THE WING NUT AT THE KEY BOARD.
- flatfoot@isns1.shasta.com
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- 09-Mar-96 08:33:57
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