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- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 14:02:53 EDT
- From: Even better than the real thing. <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Message-ID: <92255.140253IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: U4ia RELEIF FUND. WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD SUPPORTERS
- References: <1992Sep5.154148.58658@cc.usu.edu>
- <1992Sep5.155718.58659@cc.usu.edu> <1992Sep5.160219.58662@cc.usu.edu>
- <1992Sep7.125857.880@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <2019@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
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- In article <2019@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, emackey@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Ed
- Mackey [910828]) says:
- >
-
- Some stuff deleted ...
-
- >Absolutely not!! We have enough free stuff already. If those PD/shareware
- >
- >And besides, if we DO send them money, what would they do with it?
- >No doubt they would go buy more hardware and start writing even more
- >free stuff. What a waste! Don't they know we are all very happy with
- >our commercial word processors that cost $599 apiece?? We didn't
- >
- >Then they will be forced to stop uploading this crap and get real jobs.
- >Our FTP sites will become squeaky-clean finally, and better yet,
- >we won't have to put up with programs like ProTracker or MED when
- >we could shell out real money for real programs like Sonix that are
- >much better because there are far less "options" and controls to
- >confuse the user.
- >
- >All we have to do is restrain ourselves from sending money to these
- >people. Take EdPlayer 2.0 users, for instance. They set a fine
- >example.
-
- You have got to be kidding. If it wasn't for the wonderful
- array of excelent PD software available on FTP sites and such,
- those of us who didn't have the $499 or so for commercial
- programs sometimes unworthy of such sums of money would be in
- software disrepair. I am an avid user of PD software. I do
- not agree with the "Give us money" attitude, true. That's why
- it is PD and not Shareware. If they want money, they should
- release their material into the Shareware. But I fully disagree
- with this "PD software sucks" concept. Probably three quarters
- of my software is PD material, and much better than a lot of
- so called "commercial quality" software costing more than my
- entire system did. Why buy a fortune in software when you can
- download better stuff for free? Have you ever downloaded a
- demo? Same thing pal. If it wasn't for PD software, in all
- likelihood, you'd never get your wonderful $99 upgrades whose
- sole purpose is to compete with the PD collection. Hey, let's
- face it. PD software will never go away, and I for one prefer
- it that way.
- Hats off to all PD, Freeware, and Shareware programmers out
- there.
-
-
- > --Ed.
- >--
- >Ed Mackey
- >flames > /dev/null
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