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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!martin
- From: martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn)
- Subject: Crippleware? (was Re: Usenet news for Windows NT)
- Message-ID: <BzF5Ms.ML9@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <724570036snx@dartac.demon.co.uk> <1992Dec17.180450.25130@cognos.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:47:13 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Dec17.180450.25130@cognos.com> smithb@cognos.com (Brad Smith) writes:
- >In article <724570036snx@dartac.demon.co.uk> sjr@dartac.demon.co.uk writes:
- >>In article <BzBJ02.59x@news.iastate.edu> Martin R Calsyn writes:
- >>
- >>> The reader will likely be distributed as shareware with posting
- >>> available when the product is registered.
- >>
- >>I understand your reasons for making posting available only when registered.
- >>However, please reconsider. [...]
-
- I've also been frustrated to download a product only to find that
- it's only half there. I'll give this some further consideration.
- Perhaps I'll try a carrot instead of the stick and offer (expanded)
- documentation and free upgrade(s) to registrants -- maybe even source.
-
- All of my prior products have been contract or commercially-marketed
- products. This is my first shareware release. Anyone have any figures
- on what sort of registration rates one can expect? Crippleware vs. not?
- I realize this is hard to pin down unless you know the exact number of
- downloads.
-
- I'm really not trying to be greedy here. This has been quite a fun
- project to develop. Tell me your experiences! Maybe this crippleware
- route is truly an unneccessary annoyance.
-
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- Martin R. Calsyn martin@iastate.edu
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