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In article <dfmanno-2307BF.15492309062014@news.albasani.net>,
 "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@mail.com> wrote:

> In article <bvjvdcFg5rkU2@mid.individual.net>, android <here@there.was> 
> wrote:
> 
> > If he produces a good payapp for let's say $25 then I might buy it. If 
> > he takes the freeware approach he won't get a dime from me and I won't 
> > hesitate to download he's software
> 
> In the universe of empty threats that may just be the emptiest. "I'll 
> show him. I'll download his software. Then I'll ... I'll ... I don't 
> know, but that'll learn him."

That's not a threat but a fact of life! ;-P
> 
> > since he vill
> 
> "Ve haf vays of making you code."

Is that a threat???
> 
> > make it difficult for 
> > serious developers to get critical mass for properly financed 
> > applications.
> 
> It's so easy now that the number of "serious developers" working on 
> payware newsreaders is exactly zero.

I thought that O'Leary wanted 50K for his...
> 
> You know, you and the others objecting to O'Leary sound like doctrinaire 
> libertarians to me, the kind who get disproportionately bent out of 
> shape whenever anybody fails to pay the proper obeisance to free-market 
> capitalism.

Do feel free to give away your work. But don't ask for monetary 
compensation at the same time...
-- 
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