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From: svirsky@ttidcb.UUCP (William Svirsky)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: shareware
Message-ID: <519@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 12:14:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 12:14:01 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:45:59 EST
References: <132@mit-eddie.UUCP> <690@dcl-cs.UUCP> <1269@tekgvs.UUCP> <1256@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: svirsky@ttidcb.UUCP (William Svirsky)
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <1256@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Thomas Cox) writes:
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>		4) arguments for carrying shareware?
>
>A. useful programs/fonts/DA's for free
>B. said useful things support the USENET community
C. its been my experience that shareware is performs better (ie. less
   bugs, nicer user interface, more polished) and has better documentation
   than most public domain software.  This makes sense.  Who's going to
   send money to someone for a lousy program.  On the other hand, there is
   little incentive for the authors of PD software to maintain and/or
   enhance their programs.  I mean, after all, maintanence is a dirty job
   so nobody wants to do it, right (-|?  I realize that many PD authors
   take great pride in doing a good job, but there are some that figure
   that once its up and running, their job is done.  Debugging is often
   very frustrating and boring.
>
>		5) arguments against?
>
>A. primarily, that the authors of shareware 'stand to gain' [i. e. make
>   money] from the USENET's freely distributing said shareware.
>B. possibly others.  See net.micro.mac and net.news.
>
>		6) solution:
>
>A. mod.sources.mac would eliminate chatter, repostings, postings of
>   out-of-date software.  Latest posting = latest version.  would serve to 
>   enforce whatever shareware policy was adopted.

As long as the policy that is adopted is what the majority wants and is not
the decision of just a few persons.