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- From: kevin@fury.com (Kevin Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:38:55 -0800
- Organization: Fury Solutions
- Message-ID: <kevin-1003962238550001@kfox.vip.best.com>
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- In article <badger.826507109@phylo.life.uiuc.edu>,
- badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) wrote:
-
- >paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
- >
- >>< by definition,
- >>> shareware authors are amateur programers who program for fun, and not
- >>> to put food on their table.
- >
- >>Where did you get that definition? As it is incorrect in a lot of
- >>cases. Eg. mine and the AWeb author to name but two.
- >
- >There seems to be some confusion as to what I mean by "amateur". A
- >person can be a professional programmer by day, but is still an
- >amateur in their spare time. Indeed that is what "spare time" means --
- >time you are not being paid for.
-
- Your logic here it completely circular. You state that we shouldn't ask
- for money for our programs because we're amateur programmers, but then say
- we're amateur programmers because we don't receive money for our efforts.
-
- Let me say that I am a professional programmer. Both the software titles
- that I license to other companies for commercial release, and those that I
- release myself as shareware garner me money.
-
- I program for fun, and it's lucky that it does put food on my table,
- otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford having fun programming anymore.
-
- Kevin Fox
- Fury Solutions
- www.fury.com
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