Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!mit-eddie!media-lab!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun11!josef From: josef@nixpbe.UUCP (Moellers) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Public Domain, Shareware, etc. Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 14:48:24 GMT References: <9007270846.AA13467@thep.lu.se> <6653.26b2f818@vax1.tcd.ie> <1990Jul31.071230.27901@diku.dk> Sender: news@nixpbe.UUCP Lines: 30 In <1990Jul31.071230.27901@diku.dk> jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) writes: >peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>In article <9007270846.AA13467@thep.lu.se>, magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson) writes: >[..] >Plunging head over heels into this, at the risk of getting flamed, I >would like an answer to this hypothetical question : >If I (someone ;-) ) wanted to distribute a demonstration version of a program >(crippled only in the size of the problem that could be handled, reduced >from quite large to small-but-usable) totally free, what do I do? Can I post >it to USENET somewhere, to biz.*** or whatever ? The uncrippled program would >be marketed as a commercial product, but hopefully the demo version would >provide a lot of free pulicity ;-) >Just wondered.. ... where exactly lies pi? You then distribute two versions, one as shareware, the other as a commercial product. But when do You consider the "shareware" version a "full" version? -- | Josef Moellers | c/o Nixdorf Computer AG | | USA: mollers.pad@nixbur.uucp | Abt. PXD-S14 | | !USA: mollers.pad@nixpbe.uucp | Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring | | Phone: (+49) 5251 104662 | D-4790 Paderborn |