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- From: js12@gte.com (John Schettino)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 06:24:08 -0400
- Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.
- Message-ID: <js12-1003960624090001@pppdyn5.gte.com>
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- In article <31415062.5EC2@netcom.ca>, Aristophanes <scribe@netcom.ca> wrote:
- (Edited)
- > Dan Parvaz wrote:
- > > | Why not be a freeware programmer instead?
- > >
- > > I'm afriad that's our business, not yours. Fact is, a lot of shareware
- > > programmers *do* release freeware. But that really has to be our
- > > decision, not to be dictated at the whim at someone who seems to glory in
- > > his petty larceny.
-
- > I'd like to know if crippled shareware is more profitable than freeware with
- > an asked for donation. Anyone?
-
- Yes, shareware is more profitable than freeware. My Calendar Marker (not
- crippled, but $10) yeilded 20 registrations (and 400+ downloads from AOL
- alone). I also released two freeware hacks (quick-all names and notes and
- another one who's name escapes me) that I received $0 for ;)
-
- I've found it is more profitable to write words about programming the
- Newton then it is to program shareware. Sad but true. My usualy PDA
- Developers article includes an app (with source) that is about 70% of a
- "real" application. I get paid more to write the article and give away the
- source than I ever would releasing it as shareware. (Actually, Calendar
- Marker began life as a PDA Developers article on "hacking".)
-
- >
- > I'd also like to point out that some of the best "shareware" stuff I've seen
- > are hacks and cracks.
-
- Guilty.
-
- > And, finally, I think that the real people who proit from shareware are those
- > who pay the authors next-to-nothing for putting the stuff on CD-ROM's in
- > gobs, and then charge a fortune via mail-order. That's a classic case of the
- > middleman defeating the origins of the shareware concept.
-
- Not really. After AMUG put out their CDROM with my CM on it, I got another
- 5 or 6 registrations. That's about par for the course.
-
- > Sigh. I like much of the shareware I see. But the ONLY time I sent ayone any
- > money.......it was returned due to change of address.
-
- Try again ;) Catamont and Stand-alone are good companies, as are a lot of
- other individual shareware authors.
- ==--
- John Schettino
- HomePage: http://members.aol.com/pdcjohns
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