Uu> From: bei@dogface.austin.tx.us (Bob Izenberg) # Only one question: WHY? If PGP is freeware for noncommercial single # users, why on earth would anyone wish to drop $100 +/- for single-user # rights to a virtually identical program? Uu> Dumb as it may sound, at work the people from Finance want to see that Uu> we've paid for all the software on our machines. Yes, I've received several replies like yours, but note that company use was not the question - I understand the "why" there, complete with all the corporate shareware/freeware phobia - but the question was why a _private single user_ would pay $100 for the honor of a licensed private single-user release of a freeware program. THAT doesn't make sense, thus my question. . Conceivably, someone with assets (certainly not me, but I suppose such people exist somewhere) might be worried about the sound & fury emanating from PKP concerning lawsuits against all freeware PGP users, but $100 is mighty high insurance against an event with that low of a probability. ********************************************************************* * <m..stirner@f28.n125.z1.fidonet.org> - PGP Key D30909 via servers * * > What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not <* * > warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit <* * > of resistance? Let them take arms!" - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 <* ********************************************************************* ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -- M. Stirner - via FidoNet node 1:125/1 UUCP: ...!uunet!kumr!shelter!28!M..Stirner INTERNET: M..Stirner@f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG