Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 1997 07:24:08 -0600 (CST)
From:	Adrian Oboroc <ash AT cinf DOT usm DOT md>
To:	Leath Muller <leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Shareware publishing
In-Reply-To:	<199701220320.NAA03876@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.3.93.970123065854.3827B-100000@cinf.usm.md>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Leath Muller wrote:

> > And finaly, percentage is important, for shure. But more important is
> > game quality and ideas, because it's much better to catch 5% from 30M$,
> > then 60% from 10K$. So, forget about this discussion, and concentrate
> > under your coding/drawing/composing/scenario making skills.
> 
> Question: What do you care? You copy it for free, and so these people get
> 5% of your nothing. Good on ya. Man, you must really suck... I really hate
> people who do that shit, and your one. So how about you keep your discussion
> to yourself...
> 
> Leathal.
> 
Ok, bite me. But you should know, that in my country there no copyright
policy at all, and everybody use everything for free. I'm not a shareware
publisher, or re-distributor of pirated software. Actualy there is no
legal way to obtine software in my country. I'm a very poor on funds
student, and very frequently I even don't have much to eat. Thanks to
Soros fundation we've got at least Inet access in our University. So, 
please, better bite somebody else, who make fat buckses with pirasy.
BTW: I started to use DJGPP mostly because it's free, previously I used
Watcom (yep, not registered one, bite me onse again). Actualy I work under
freeware clone of DeluxePaint II Enhanced. The project is called
FreePaint. By making this piece of software I hope to repay to all PC 
community for their friendly help and kindness. I don't want to receive
cash for my program, because I use programs, wich I didn't registered. And
finaly I'm wondering: please, may friend, tell me, are every bit and byte
on your PC belongs to freeware or registered software ? And you paid for
your Norton Commander, you registered your Shareware version of PkZip, Arj
and Rar, or erased 'em after trial period ? 
You know, my friend, there a story in Bible, I'm don't remember
details, but the general idea is: Let the absolutly innocent PC user
bite me first. Actualy I think, that hardly studiing math and modern
programming methods, and programming in all spare time I'll acieve better
future, at least I hope... I think that an active programmer, who uses
some unregistered tools is not as bad as somebody, who tells what
FMUL/FDIV is a 486 rudiments, and their modern analogues are IMUL/IDIV :)

So, please don't be so agressive, it will save your nerves ;)
And anyway, nobody will receive 5% from me for their games, because I
don't play at all, my friend. 

P.S. To DJGPP community: I am sorry for posting this letter in list, but
I received the original message from Lethal also from maillist. In future
I'll send non DJGPP specific messages directly to the authors, but this
time I was interested in community opinion.

			AsH

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