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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
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Subject: Re: New ideas on software piracy... Flames welcome.
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:25:38 EDT
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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
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