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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware is junk
Message-ID: <1991May3.190048.5898@shaman.com>
Date: 3 May 91 19:00:48 GMT
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In article <3939@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> coy@ssc-vax (Stephen B Coy) writes:
> How about "I love your program, best of its type, can you mail me
> the source?"  BTW my shareware is neither crippled nor loaded with
> threats yet I've still had registrations.  Not many, but enough to
> keep me optimistic about version 2.
	
	My ShareWare program has been out for the NeXT for the
last 1.5 years. It's had 34 registrations for a total of
$523 (you can't divide it out since I have staggered
registrations, $5 for academic up to $100 for site
license). 	
	This isn't terribly bad, but isn't terribly
good. I never wrote Cassandra to make money and $500
doesn't even cover the 300+ hours I've put into Cassandra
even at minimum wages.  	
	But we all know that ShareWare
authors just write for the love of it, right? ;-) My
favorite e-mail responses are: "Why is this feature x
broken, when will you fix it, 'cos I'm not going to pay you
until you do, but you also have to add y,z,z' or I still
won't pay."

	- jiro nakamura 	jiro@shaman.com 
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