Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-tcc.UUCP!lvirden From: lvirden@pro-tcc.UUCP (Larry Virden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Shareware - does it really work? Message-ID: <8910201120.AA28806@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 20 Oct 89 10:00:40 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 Network Comment: to #1322 by sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com Some other shareware authors in the Apple world are Jason Harper - SHRConvert for the GS (note that Jason is going commercial... sigh), Don Elton (sysop of pro-carolina) - who turned one commercial shareware product into private commercial (Talk is Cheap!) and two into freeware! (ECP8 and ECP16), info-apple's own Dave Lyons (nifty list, davex, etc). These are 3 relatively successful folks. But private commercial (where the author sells things themselve thru their own business/homes) like Don Elton and Glen Bredon are becoming more common. -- Larry W. Virden ProLine: pro-tcc!lvirden 674 Falls Place Work: lvirden@cas.bitnet Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614 Aline: LVIRDEN CIS: 75046,606