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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: shareware in Europe
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.043129.12641@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 04:31:29 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.151350.12532@lth.se> sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m) writes:

>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.

But don't let the 'Lite' Version be convertable into the PRO version by
means of a password or something, a la Cairo Shootout, MacPassword, or
(well, actually, a file edit) DOS Mounter.  All that does is get your product
looked at by bored hackers :-).



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