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- From: ben@standalone.com (Ben Gottlieb)
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- Subject: Re: Users are selfish Was Re: crippled software
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:52:17 GMT
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- In article <badger.826305026@phylo.life.uiuc.edu>
- badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
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- > I'm not demanding anything -- I'm merely stating that 1) Shareware is
- > not profitable -- that's why you get zillions of whining shareware
- > authors who are shocked that the money isn't rolling in. and 2) In the
- > more civilized UNIX world shareware is considered to be in bad taste,
- > and freeware is plentiful. Consider Sanjay's Mahjongg program. I'm
- > aware of three UNIX versions of the game -- all of them
- > free.
-
- Okay, first off, it's not true that "Shareware is not profitable".
- Stand Alone (currently two people) make most of our living off of
- shareware...time limited shareware at that. Wake Up Week has won
- numerous awards, both in shareware-only and shareware/commercial
- categories...not too much of a blight, I hope ;-)
-
- Second, while I'm sure that for the UNIX world shareware is in bad
- taste, here on planet earth (my world, as I like to call it...)
- shareware is a perfectly acceptable method of compensation for what can
- amount to hundreds of hours of work.
-
- I've re-labled all our releases on AOL as shareware/30-day demos, so
- you can pick the terminology you prefer :-)
-
- Ben
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