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From: ludde@nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware in Europe
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.174755.3960@nada.kth.se>
Date: 22 Nov 90 17:47:55 GMT
References: <3761@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1990Nov18.195822.925@uni-paderborn.de> <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com> <1990Nov20.102200.394@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
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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.

Here in Sweden, at least two User Groups have collected shareware money from
their members and then they have sent the money to the author.
If I remember correctly, Steve Tibbett got around $6000 this way for VirusX
and Dave Haynie "a few bucks" also for DiskSalv.
One of the user groups are collecting money for SID now, so I guess Timm
Martin will get some money soon.

>
>> --
>> Ed Hanway --- uunet!sisd!jeh
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>
>  Malcolm Caldwell   CALDWELL_M@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU
>  Darwin Australia   FIDO: 3:690/648.3


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-Erik Lundevall                   ludde@adder.bula.se | ludde@nada.kth.se