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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Summary of ShareWare experiences (Moderately long).
Keywords: shareware, freeware, crippleware
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.165024.29181@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:50:24 GMT
References: <2816@cod.NOSC.MIL> <11080@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Feb14.004732.5939@sugar.hackercorp.com> <990@faatcrl.UUCP>
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In article <990@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
|>   That whole post smacked of a confidence scam.  He comes off as trying to
|> help enlighten those considering to market their work via shareware to the
|> unviability of it and then "offers" to publish it for them, jeez...

He did?  Maybe you need to reread the article, starting with the title,
before you pass judgement like this.

This person (Joe Burkley) was summarizing the information he had
received from people who had replied to a request for shareware
experiences that he had posted a few weeks before.

If the information he sent out was wrong, it's likely that it's because
the replies he got were wrong, or at least conflicting.  He didn't do a
terrible job.

As for the publishing offer, you might note that this was from a man
named Tony Scott in Colorado, not from Joe, who is in San Diego.
I didn't even see a conflict in that part of the article, since the
quote clearly starts out "Before you actually release your software as
shareware".

To Joe Burkley: Thanks for posting the information you got, and don't
let us scare you away (especially mean ol' Pete and Joe; They hate
everyone ;-).

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