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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
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Date: 30 Sep 89 23:29:39 GMT
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> Network Comment: to #478 by pnet01!pro-tcc!dougs@crash.cts.com
> 
> WARNING!  While ShrinkIt for the II, II+ and IIc/e may be free, apparently
> from the rumors that I have hear Andy is discouraged about something and
> now is making GS owners buy Shrinkit for the GS - at $40!  I guess it
> is time for me to go back to porting zoo with enhancements for resource
> files. Sigh.

Discouraged?  Yes -- when people go out of their way to charge for
freeware programs, yes, I get discouraged.

The IIe/IIc and II+ versions of shrinkit will still be free, as will the
Unshrinkit and unshrinkit DA programs.  Only shrinkit/gs will be commercial.

Some of you folks should consider buying a piece of software every now and
then.  When sales of software are good, it encourages authors to write more
software... when I hear talk like this, it's enough to get me sick enough to
just scrap the entire thing, not finish anything, and go work on writing stuff
for our sun workstations and forget about the Apple II altogether.

Calm down people, the earth hasn't stopped turning because you actually might
have to pay for a piece of software -- which you probably won't since if all
you want to do is extract from archives you can just use unshrinkit or
unshrinkit da -- and even if you have to make archives, you can still use the
8-bit version if you don't have any files with resource forks.  And if you're
so hard up for $40 (which will be discounted some places as well) you could
put your files with resource forks onto a disk like everyone's been doing so
and packing that entire disk... sheesh...

andy

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