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- From: mld@kepler.unh.edu (Michael L Dupuis)
- Subject: Attention all Shareware authors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.120410.10501@nic.unh.edu>
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- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
- Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:04:10 GMT
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- I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I am thinking about
- doing some shareware development in the future and I was wondering:
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- How many actual payments received constitutes a successful program?
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- How successful have current shareware programs been?
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- How is the response as far as payments and feedback from users?
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- What's the best way to actually get people to pay for what they decide to
- keep? Crippled Demos? Honor System? Guilt?
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- What percentage of copies in use are not payed for(estimate)?
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- If I do develop, the money won't be the primary purpose, but I was wondering
- if it would be worth it to try and get some payment for the development.
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- Please email me and I'll summarize.
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- Thanks.
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