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- From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: U4ia RELEIF FUND. WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD SUPPORTERS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.171452.20662@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 17:14:52 GMT
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- Even better than the real thing. <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
-
- >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
-
- >.-----------------------------------------------------------------------.
- >| MST3000 * Monty Python * IRC * Ren&Stimpy * Erasure * Nirvana * Amiga |
- >| Calvin & Hobbes * SEX * The Muppets * Duran Duran * The Far Side * me |
- >| Douglas Adams * recycling -+* Captain Ugh IO10781@maine.maine.edu *+- |
- >`-----------------------------------------------------------------------'
-
- Hey man, take it easy. Ed was merely kidding. (I wonder why he didn't
- put a smiley face in his posting). Ed Mackey himself is a PD/Shareware
- author for several Amiga titles. "EdPlayer" (the mod player) is his
- recent release.
-
- Yours Sincerely,
- Kelvin
-
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