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- From: jms@hodgkin.mc.duke.edu (Jack Starmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:54:39 -0400
- Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc.
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- In article <4hptl0$5c7@news2.deltanet.com>, fuz@deltanet.com (Scott
- Ellsworth) wrote:
-
- > My own definition, unless other information changes it is that freeware
- > is not free, merely something that someone else has funded the
- > development of. Often, that someone is a federal agency or
- > grant-supported university spending (conceptually) my tax and pledge dollars.
- >
-
- I resent that statement. I have released mutiple freeware offerings for
- FileMaker Pro. No one "funded" the development. I released the software
- for free. You don't have to pay for it. I, in no way, purchased my
- computer or my copy of FileMaker Pro for the purpose of developing
- software. I thought it would be fun to do and I did it. Everything was
- already paid for.
-
- > > Why not be a freeware programmer instead?
- >
- > Because then you get no return from your investment.
- >
-
- This is just not true. I have received a large amount of eMail from
- people who use the software I released. All of them from people thanking
- me for making the FM Pro template. Some from people who were surprised it
- was "free". It makes me feel good to have made a usefull tool for some of
- the folks out there on the internet. For me that is a tremendous return
- on my investment.
-
- jack (jms@hodgkin.mc.duke.edu)
-
- Author of CDLite, CDLite Pro, and CDLite Classical for Filemaker Pro.
-