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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
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Subject: Re: Should I go commercial?
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Date: 26 Oct 89 20:10:30 GMT
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After Matt Dillon asked about whether or not he should "go commercial"
all the replies seem to be about other topics.

Sure, Dillon.  Go commercial.  If you just go the shareware route, it
looks to me like your stuff is enough beloved that you might make a few bucks.
I seem to recall that about one year ago, Bill Hawes reported about 300
registered users of ConMan, which amounts to $3000.  But he also seemed
to think that it hadn't been worth it.

On the other hand, the PCWrite people in msdos-land made a lot of money.

Maybe another idea would be to farm out your software to some small
company that already has a few products of it's own, and wants to add
some technical systems software like your to the product line.  Seems to me
there are a half dozen or so tiny software companies here in comp.sys.amiga
that might accomplish some exonomies of scale by banding together to share
order processing, taxes, and so on. (You know who you are, and you look
mahvelous.)

           lee