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Re: Do you still pay for software?
de Anonymous 04/14/2006 08:51
Of course.. nothing can escape me either...
But lets be very honest here....
Newer versions are no longer free.....
and you are acting against the will of the developer most of the times,
since they say (most of the times) in the agreement that distibutuion
without liscence from him/her is not allowed.
You may say that you are not one who is distibuting but only downloading
from the source.
You can tell that to the record companies who are attacking with lawsuites
downloaders of media through P2P networks.
Technically it is still stealing.. why not crack or hack a commercial
product then?
Perhaps it is to say to yourself that you are not a thief?
I am just speculating.. I use old freeware myself that I have stored on
cdroms,
or find from third sites/mirrors on the internet.
I am amused to see that no one is commenting on the free energy part of my
post.
"Franklin" <franksays@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns97A5BD7F220A08FCE1@127.0.0.1...
> On 14 Apr 2006, Anonymous<no@spam.com> wrote:
>
>> One is freeware, that a programmer writes and gives the program
>> for free, yet he retains the code closed.
>> If he wishes, he can make the program a commercial product and
>> pull the freeware versions from the various servers.
>> This has been done many times.
>>
>
> Unfortunately for the software author it's a bit like Pandora's Box.
> Once the freeware is out in the world then it's hard to force
> resourceful users to pay for later chargeable versions.
>
> Some authors do a better job than others of removing their early
> freeware versions from servers.
>
> But the freeware world has a secret weapon in Susan Bugher who can
> track down an old copy of even the most obscure freeware. And
> frequently does so. Her success rate is amazing.
>
> :-)