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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware in Europe
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.073216.25083@cs.umu.se>
Date: 20 Nov 90 07:32:16 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.102200.394@darwin.ntu.edu.au> caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
>In article <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com>, jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
>
>> Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas
>> users to register?  I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to
>> get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the
>> trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20.
>
>Here, here.  It can be quite expensive.  It is very discouraging to see a 
>program offered at the reasonable proce of $20 or so shoot up at the profit 
>of the banks.
>

Hmmm... How about some kind of joint effort between usergroups in different
countries. I believe that supporting all shareware products would be asking
too much of the usergroups but this would give support to good, widely-used
applications at least.

Jorgen

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