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From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: shareware in Europe
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.151350.12532@lth.se>
Date: 18 Feb 91 15:13:50 GMT
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Organization: Applied Electronics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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In-Reply-To: GHGAQA0@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be's message of 15 Feb 91 11:54:41 GMT

In article <91046.115541GHGAQA0@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GHGAQA0@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie) writes:
   This is a question to all European shareware programmers:

   Did you ever get any shareware fees from outside Europe (U.S.?).
   If yes, how many ?


I tried to distribute a couple of utilities as shareware 2 or 3 years
ago and actually got most of the fees from US and if I remember
correctly I got about 15 shareware fees. Some of these utilities
are now freeware instead because I wan't them to be used and they
aren't good enough to be commercial.

I don't think it matters if you have a good product or not it will
never pay of as shareware. Make it freeware and don't bother too
much about the support or make it commercial. You could also try
to make a Lite version as shareware and try to convince users to
buy the Pro version.

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