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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: shareware
Message-ID: <393@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 03:43:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 03:43:21 1985
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> 	Can someone please explain the FUNDAMENTAL difference between
> 	shareware and, say, chain letters?

Shareware provides a service that you would otherwise have to pay for, sight
unseen. Maybe you have enough money to buy 42 terminal programs, or maybe your
likes & dislikes match up with Jerry Pournelle's so you can let him do the
testing, but some of us can't afford the former & don't believe the latter.

> 	Seems to me that they both clog communication channels for a 
> 	few people's financial benefit.

I have yet to meet anyone who has made a living off shareware.
-- 
Name: Peter da Silva
Graphic: `-_-'
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