Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: What does free mean. Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 90 14:46:53 GMT References: <1151@mtxinu.UUCP> <1990Mar14.234322.16167@NCoast.ORG> <6110@becker.UUCP> <1990Mar20.005906.21181@NCoast.ORG> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Followup-To: comp.sources.d Distribution: usa Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: allbery@NCoast.ORG's message of 20 Mar 90 00:59:06 GMT In article <1990Mar20.005906.21181@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: The upshot is that I can charge all I want, but I'd better be fully compensated on the first purchase because a second isn't all that likely. And nobody will buy at the resulting price, so I may as well stay home. The way to sell GNUware is to find a user group who will pay for your software *in advance*. As you say, people are unlikely to pay for it once you've distributed it. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems