[net.micro] New ideas on software piracy...

slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) (08/20/85)

> In article <196@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
> >How many of you have actually paid for shareware you
> >use?

Here at Lotus, most of the users of shareware send in a check from
their own pockets.  Shareware is often the source of very high-quality
products (and very enjoyable ones too, such as HACK)

If someone uses the disk on a regular basis w/o paying, they are
only cheating themselves, as updates/upgrades/new products will
not be forthcoming from authors who have to reenter the job mill
to survive.


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