Date   : Fri, 26 Oct 1990 21:42:34 GMT
From   : csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Ian Justman)
Subject: Joan Riff and Z80M

max@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Max Southall) writes:

> Not liking Joan's attitude as a reason for using and not paying for her
> CP/M and Z80 emulation package sounds like a rather convenient
> justification for taking advantage and saving bucks. If you feel you can't
> use her stuff in good conscience, don't use it at all. That's like saying
> it's OK to rob banks because some of them invest in South Africa! Sheesh.
> 
> References: <1990Oct19.204926.17576@techbook.com> <PLTFR2w163w@ijpc.UUCP> <64

That's not necessarily true.  She puts her shareware fees much
too high for it to be with most shareware which goes from
$15-~$90.  Like I said in an earlier message, it isn't worth THAT
much.   If you consider unreasonably high shareware fees "not
liking Joan's attitude", so be it.  I consider her attitude as
only partly why I wouldn't buy it.  It's the unreasonably high
shareware fee that she asks which is not convincing me not to buy
it.

I guess the reason yo find it a convenient reason is because it's
so easily obtained.  It's distributed on the "try-before-you-buy"
basis that is shareware.  Also, just wondering, did you yourself
pay the $150 she asks for it?  Or did you find out about how much
she wants and then decide not to use it?