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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
- Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.214051.18529@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 21:40:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.180643.24274@PA.dec.com> <Bt9HK2.8w8@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Aug21.201734.20379@PA.dec.com>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
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- In article <1992Aug21.201734.20379@PA.dec.com> reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com
- (Jim Reisert) writes:
- >To me, given equal functionality and comparable prices [...]
-
- You may just have hit the nail on the head there. Usually, for
- equal functionality, shareware is cheaper. (This is not always the case,
- but usually so.) There is a good reason for that: Shareware authors
- don't pay much for advertising and distribution. People find out about
- their products by word of mouth and the software then gets around by
- being passed from BBS to FTP site to BBS at no cost to the original
- author.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-