From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
Subject: Re: U4ia RELEIF FUND. WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD SUPPORTERS
Date: 12 Sep 92 17:14:52 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Even better than the real thing. <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

>In article <2019@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, emackey@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Ed
>Mackey [910828]) says:
>>

> Some stuff deleted ...

>>Absolutely not!!  We have enough free stuff already.  If those PD/shareware
>>
>>And besides, if we DO send them money, what would they do with it?
>>No doubt they would go buy more hardware and start writing even more
>>free stuff.  What a waste!  Don't they know we are all very happy with
>>our commercial word processors that cost $599 apiece??  We didn't
>>
>>Then they will be forced to stop uploading this crap and get real jobs.
>>Our FTP sites will become squeaky-clean finally, and better yet,
>>we won't have to put up with programs like ProTracker or MED when
>>we could shell out real money for real programs like Sonix that are
>>much better because there are far less "options" and controls to
>>confuse the user.
>>
>>All we have to do is restrain ourselves from sending money to these
>>people.  Take EdPlayer 2.0 users, for instance.  They set a fine
>>example.

>  You have got to be kidding. If it wasn't for the wonderful
>array of excelent PD software available on FTP sites and such,
>those of us who didn't have the $499 or so for commercial
>programs sometimes unworthy of such sums of money would be in
>software disrepair. I am an avid user of PD software. I do
>not agree with the "Give us money" attitude, true. That's why
>it is PD and not Shareware. If they want money, they should
>release their material into the Shareware. But I fully disagree
>with this "PD software sucks" concept. Probably three quarters
>of my software is PD material, and much better than a lot of
>so called "commercial quality" software costing more than my
>entire system did. Why buy a fortune in software when you can
>download better stuff for free? Have you ever downloaded a
>demo? Same thing pal. If it wasn't for PD software, in all
>likelihood, you'd never get your wonderful $99 upgrades whose
>sole purpose is to compete with the PD collection. Hey, let's
>face it. PD software will never go away, and I for one prefer
>it that way.
>  Hats off to all PD, Freeware, and Shareware programmers out
>there.


>>                                --Ed.
>>--
>>Ed Mackey
>>flames > /dev/null

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Hey man, take it easy.  Ed was merely kidding.  (I wonder why he didn't
put a smiley face in his posting).  Ed Mackey himself is a PD/Shareware
author for several Amiga titles.  "EdPlayer" (the mod player) is his
recent release.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin

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