[Coco] [Color Computer] Ira's Archive (trs-80.com) AvailableFor Download

[John E. Malmberg]

Hex Star wrote:
> Hello, I wish to comment on this matter immediately...
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> In addition note that there is not in any way shape or form any requirement
> or obligation at all to pay the $30 to access the information I am sharing.
> The KDX client/server protocol is shareware and can be used for free 
> without
> requiring any payment at all. Due to this I resent any comments made about
> me doing this for profit as this is absolutely NOT true!

That very statement is contradictory.  Shareware is only allowed to be 
used for a limited time with out payment.

According to http://www.haxial.com/faq/license/ that time limit is 30 
days.  After such time it is illegal to use their software with out 
purchasing a license.

It is also not available for all platforms, only a select few, so it can 
only be used on low end servers.

I also see nothing in the KDX functionality that is not provided by 
existing open source products and defacto or standard known protocols, 
and aside from this thread, I have never heard of it before.

It is very incorrect to call shareware free, or imply that it can be 
used with out paying.

I have had some bad experience with purchasing what I thought were free 
utilities and have them turn out to be almost completely shareware 
utilities that if the licenses for all were purchased would be a 
considerable sum.

For this reason, I totally avoid shareware and products marketed by 
shareware, and make sure that I have only products that are open source 
and free, or ones that I have obtained a legal license for on my computers.

Also in this case, even if the product were available for my platform, I 
could not purchase it as it requires PayPal, which has terms of service 
that allows them to automatically extract payments and gives me no 
method of preventing such an extract should I want to dispute a billing.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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