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Article #179Re: Visted id Software in Dallas and got registered version of DOOM
From: tjg... Zelpheriarderizan Xaviera
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 14:57
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 14:57
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In article <ch=1el_00U...@andrew.cmu.edu>, David Reeve Sward <swa...@CMU.EDU> writes: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action: 5-Jan-94 Re: Visted >id Software in D.. by Taylor Hu...@clark.net >> You are correct in stating that people will 'feel they have paid the >> price of the game already', and probably not pay for the shareware, but >> that does NOT entitle the game's author to a percentage. > >Then couldn't id claim lost sales due to the shareware disk vendor >misleading the customers? I believe rack vendors now have to clearly >state what is and is not shareware, and that an additional fee is >required by the author for registration of the product. >-- >David Sward swa...@cmu.edu >GCS: -d+ -p+(---) c++(++++) l+ u+ e+ m+()@ s+/+ n+@ h+ f !g w+@ t+@ r+ y? Yea they can do that. Plus since it's THEIR program, THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO WITH IT. Demanding that it's to be distributed for free only (or a dollar each disk, limit 5 disks), or any type of condictions. They can do whatever they want cuz it's THEIR program. -Zelpheri *** This SIG is currently under construction. Coming features: More dumb quotes! Neat Elaboration of my alias! [This Space For Rent!]
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!rochester!rit!isc-newsserver!ritvax.isc.rit.edu!TJG2946 From: tjg...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Zelpheriarderizan Xaviera) Subject: Re: Visted id Software in Dallas and got registered version of DOOM Message-ID: <1994Jan6.145741.7478@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Sender: ne...@ultb.isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: vaxf-eth.isc.rit.edu Reply-To: tjg...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology References: <ch=1el_00Uh741kIFl@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:57:41 GMT Lines: 29 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit