Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community. Message-ID: <5756@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 26 May 90 15:09:06 GMT References: <1990May17.001308.29541@csmil.umich.edu> <136089@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <11747@cbmvax.commodore.com> <136118@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1401@faatcrl.UUCP> Organization: Count Floyd's 3-D House of Unix Lines: 22 cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: >Shareware is a very close concept to "dumping" which the >Japanese got in to so much trouble for. A lot of people who >do shareware don't do it for the money. Instead, they just >like to program and do, periodically bundling up the results >into a "shareware" package on the presumption that any >financial returns are just bonuses to the already enjoyable >experience of creating something and having other people use >it. But it's not dumping in the same sense, because the motives are totally different. The Japanese "dump" to build market share and annihilate their foreign competition. Shareware (and freeware) authors "dump" because they feel they have written a moderately useful program, or a program that may be of great use to a limited number of people, and they want to share it with them but feel that the economics don't justify trying to actually sell the thing. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018