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From: strasser@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Colin Strasser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Does Shareware hurt professional software development?
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Date: 27 May 90 12:43:24 GMT
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In article <1990May26.223843.19350@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>In article <25291@netnews.upenn.edu> Colin Strasser writes:

>>Please, don't coddle corporations.  They really don't need it.
>>				-Colin
>
>	Anti business Colin?  Sell software/hardware in the Amiga market
>	for a while...

That's the point.  If it's such a painful market to access commercially, 
then why not go the shareware route, like Jack?  If, as Marco says, you
need the volume of sales acievable only through commercialization in or-
der to feed and clothe yourself, than may I humbly suggest either getting
a second job (you know, some 9-to-5 thing) and do your Amiga development
on the side; or else develop for other machines as well, instead of the 
Amiga exclusively.

I'd be sorry to lose exclusively-Amiga developers, but at least no one
would be starving as they struggle with that awful Amiga market.

Just to show that quality software doesn't HAVE to be commercial in order
to get updates and product support, MSH just had a bug-fix update a couple
months ago.  There's a program with a large following who will tell you
that it's at least as good as its commercial counterpart and that they
chose it largely because it was shareware.

				-Colin


Colin Strasser				University of Pennsylvania
strasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu		Moore School of Electrical Engineering
CI$: 72447,1650				Class of '90 -- Penn's 250th year!