Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucrmath!lulu From: lulu@ucrmath.ucr.edu (david lu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Software Publishing Message-ID: <7357@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Date: 30 Jun 90 04:27:38 GMT References: <1990Jun24.214227.5186@xrtll.uucp> Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 18 In article <1990Jun24.214227.5186@xrtll.uucp> silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) writes: > > By and large, distributing your program as shareware doesn't work. >I've tried sending my programs to the shareware/public domain places > I totally agree. It's a bum deal for programmers. Just think about it. If people are willing to pirate *commercial* programs, how are you going to convince them to pay for share- ware, which to most people is the same as public domain? > So if you decide to go the shareware route, I hope you do well. But - David -- ---==lulu@ucrmath==--- just another bewildered college undergraduate. David T Lu, Amateur Thinker: lulu@ucrmath.ucr.edu, {ucsd, uci}!ucrmath!lulu "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." - Geoffrey James, _The Tao of Programming_