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Re: Visted id Software in Dallas and got registered version of DOOM

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From: tjg... Zelpheriarderizan Xaviera
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

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