Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: THINKER Message-ID: <1991Jan12.131014.11873@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 12 Jan 91 13:10:14 GMT References: <37728@cup.portal.com> <37852@cup.portal.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 33 Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes: Re: THINKER >> I own Thinker - in fact, I'm a big fan of it. The author has no >> problems with you using the demo version as a browser. Since he's >> losing money on the product,... ^^^^^^^^^^ >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Could you elaborate on that? > [ ] Revenues are not covering the cost of media and distribution > [ ] Revenues are not paying the rent. > [ ] Revenues are not paying for development costs. > [ ] Other. > Like most programmers, I've thought about marketing my own software, > and I would be interested in learning about the pluses/minuses of > those who do. The author, in a recent presentation of his excellent product, said that between advertising and media and distribution costs, he was still nowhere close to making minimum wage on his development time (and I think he has so far taken an absolute monetary loss, though it's been a while since his talk at BADGE). Someone _really_ needs to repost Chuck McMannis' presentation on the nasty realities of trying to earn money by selling software yourself. Kent, the man from xanth.