Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 07:24:08 -0600 (CST) From: Adrian Oboroc To: Leath Muller cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Shareware publishing In-Reply-To: <199701220320.NAA03876@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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