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- From: mwgordon@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Gordon)
- Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.172657.19442@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 17:26:57 GMT
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- Also, not many commercial programs let you return them if they don't work
- out for you. Not all of them say exactly how much memory/disk space/resources
- they need to run or install. You open them up and get burned by the 'shrink
- wrap contract'. Why is it that the software industry is allowed to sell you
- a product that you can't examine first, and then say 'you bought it, too bad if
- it doesn't do what you want'? Oh, I know, because all the nasty pirates would
- rip them off. Gee, the pirates are killing them anyways, so why punish the
- honest customers?
-
- Mike Gordon 99681084@uwwvax.uww.edu
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