Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter 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 Article-I.D.: graffiti.393 Posted: Sun Nov 3 03:43:21 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:14:22 EST References: <182@tolerant.UUCP> <678@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 17 > 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: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter