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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 2.1 beta found on Hobbes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.225428.1427@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 22:54:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.072701.11061@netcom.com> msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
- >I am GLAD that the beta was removed from hobbes. The last thing developers
- >want to see is blatent breaches of copyright even for beta software.
-
- Why? Anyone (not only registered OS/2 2.0 users) can join DAP and
- order the beta for $15, which is nothing more than a shipping and
- manufacturing charge, and you know it.
-
- Nobody would use this beta for their working system, since it's slow
- (full of debugging code), and bug-ridden, and will not be upgraded to
- the release version of 2.1 without proof of purchase for 2.0 anyway.
-
- There may have been some legal problems with copyright anwyay, but
- it's certainly not to protect IBM from lost profits! Do you think
- that it affects IBM any differently if people get it for free or for
- $1.50 each? ($15 for a 10-copy site license)
-
- >Please support the devlopment efforts of developers large and small BUY
- >software that you use and pay the poor souls who write shareware otherwise
- >they will stop developing software.
-
- What does this preaching have to do with the OS/2 2.1 beta? Or do you
- just jump at the opportunity to preach to the masses of users out here.
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