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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PK361.EXE
Message-ID: <1959@looking.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 16:48:50 GMT
References: <3656@bsu-cs.UUCP>  <761@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <761@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>SEA didn't write ARC as a commercial product, but as shareware.  They
>"built their customer base" via the generosity of BBSes!

Doesn't this take all?  For years, hobbyists have been decrying the prices
of commercially distributed software.  "Do it as shareware!" they said.

And now if somebody actually succeeds, they get told it wasn't really
their success, but due to the generousity of the people who handed the
program around.

Sheesh.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473