Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: New ideas on software piracy... Flames welcome. Message-ID: <196@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:25:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.196 Posted: Fri Aug 9 16:25:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 07:19:31 EDT References: <419@gumby.UUCP> <3093@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 21 In article 3093@nsc.UUCP Chuq Von Rospach (nsc!chuqui@decwrl) writes: > I hate to throw water on the fire, but I've read a couple of reports that > many people are re-thinking the shareware/freeware concept in the Macintosh > market because of rather flagrant abuses. Apple is reportedly rather upset > ... > It just goes to show -- when something gets popular, people start abusing > it. If you aren't careful, it gets abused into oblivion... Duke University's User Services Group has passed out many, many copies of PC-Write in our short courses introducing the IBM PC. We always urge people to register their copies, emphasizing the high quality, low cost, updates, etc. To my knowledge only one or two of the hundreds of copies have been registered. It's a wonder Bob Wallace keeps improving it! Maybe he makes it selling the manuals (a cheaper option than registraction). How many of you have actually paid for shareware you use? -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary