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From: delton@pro-exchange.cts.com (Don Elton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Shareware - does it really work?
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Date: 22 Oct 89 04:20:45 GMT
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Comment to message from: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS)

Talk is Cheap had about 1500 shareware registrations (at $30 each) back when
it was shareware but it's gone the way of Red Ryder now as a commercial
product too.  I wouldn't recommend shareware to anyone expecting to make money
off something as too few people do it.  I think TIC was pretty successful as
shareware... certainly more successful than 99.9% of shareware at least but
still not as successful as it would have been as a commercial product from the
start probably (assuming I had the $$ to promote the software as commercial
from the start which I didn't).

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