Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site maynard.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!wjh12!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Re: shareware Message-ID: <180@maynard.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:29:56 EST Article-I.D.: maynard.180 Posted: Fri Nov 1 22:29:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:42:16 EST References: <182@tolerant.UUCP> <678@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Organization: The Boston Software Works Inc., Maynard, MA Lines: 18 > Can someone please explain the FUNDAMENTAL difference between > shareware and, say, chain letters? > > Seems to me that they both clog communication channels for a > few people's financial benefit. A chain letter has no intrinsic value. Shareware must be intrinsically useful, or else no one would send money to the author. Also, don't the commercial broadcast media clog communications channels for a few people's financial benefit? -- Larry Campbell decvax!genrad The Boston Software Works, Inc. \ 120 Fulton St. seismo!harvard!wjh12!maynard!campbell Boston MA 02109 / / ihnp4 cbosgd ARPA: maynard.UUCP:campbell@harvard.ARPA