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- From: gimme@solan.unit.no (Olav Gimmestad)
- Subject: Re: A needed utility for the Amiga...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.153804.11955@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <13AUG199207344470@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug17.190139.7358@ugle.unit.no> <1992Aug17.210327.17193@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:38:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.210327.17193@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
- > mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen) writes:
- >
- > >I was thinking of doing such a utility this summer, but just as the holiday was
- > >getting close, I read in some UK Amiga-mag that sharewareprogrammers got very,
- > >very few registrations on their products. As I was going to release my equation-
- > >editor as shareware I got cold feet, and instead started coding a eurodemo...
- >
- > >Could somebody out there please let us know if it is possible to make any
- > >money on releasing (good) shareware? (I know there are several guys on the net
- > >who have coded brilliant sharewareprograms, Jonathan Potter, Charlie Gibbs, Eric
- > >Schwartz (well, not exactly coded..) etc etc).
- >
- If the utility you make is only a demo of the full version , i think some people will
- register and you will make some money. I made a utility one and uploaded it to ab20,
- but I haven't got 1 reply. And a letter from a PD company who wanted to include the program
- on their monthly disk. So I stopped developing it....
-
- I did not get 1 US$.
-
- It probably was not worth anything, but my self, I use it every day. I will never release a
- full version of any program any more as shareware. I will only give away demos, and i think that
- is the way to do it.
-
- The utility was not a heavy C-compiler or something mega heavy, but I wanted to test how it
- would be to release a program as shareware. My next project a heavy debug system I am now
- working on will NOT be shareware.
-
-
- > >Morten
- >
- > Honestly speaking, if the registration fee is >=us$30 and it supports
- > intuition, 2.0 3-D outlook, various printer drivers, etc. I am willing
- > to pay!!!
- >
- > (come on, people, back me up... we need more utilities!!! :)
- >
- > Yours Sincerely,
- > Kelvin
-
- You should pay if you use it, if it is stated that you have to. Even if the
- registration fee is only $10 it will give the programmer an idea on the interrest
- for an improved version.
-
- That will give you a new version with all kind of support.
- And then you will get the super version for only $20. $20 + $10 = $30 !
- and it will suport 100^100 of printers.
-
- Olav Gimmestad
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