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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 16 Mar 2014 19:17:16 GMT
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On 2014-03-16, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <bom3nlFu6hnU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> If you'll recall, Brian (the author of Thoth) was also the author of
>> YA-NewsWatcher, which was based directly on NewsWatcher source code.
>> Initially YA-NewsWatcher was free; but later Brian decided to charge for
>> YA-NewsWatcher. Naturally, this was in violation of the original
>> author's intent, and after significant push back from both developers
>> and users, he refunded those sales. However, later, he released Thoth -
>> another NewsWatcher derivative, and *drum roll* charged for it.
>
> I don't remember him actually charging for Newswatcher per se. I _do_ 
> remember that he bundled it with some atrocious document viewer and 
> demanded that you pay for the viewer (but not for NW); he lambasted 
> anyone who didn't want to buy his stupid viewer (this was way after 
> Adobe Reader was launched). He really gave money back?

Reportedly.

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