Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pictel!geiser From: geiser@pictel.uucp (Wayne Geiser) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: For fun or money? Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland Message-ID: <1991Jun19.160452.4416@pictel.uucp> Date: 19 Jun 91 16:04:52 GMT References: <1991Jun15.172306.19724@uwasa.fi> <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com> Organization: PictureTel Corporation Lines: 36 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: >In article <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes: > > Very often the authors of shareware are doing it for fun, and they > like to hear comments and suggestions, and like to be helpful. > >If they're not in it for the money, why are they asking for money? >Shareware is NO different from commercial, proprietary software -- it >just uses a different marketing scheme. But is there not a difference between asking for money to help defray some of the costs of this "fun" and trying to make a living off of it? Any shareware author who goes into the business expecting to make a "serious" amount of money is bound to be disappointed. Note that the above does NOT disagree with your statement about there being no difference between commercial software and shareware other than the marketing scheme. I simply think that it is a little simplistic to make assumptions about someone's motivation in this case. >--russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. >I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email >address will remain. If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu. -- Wayne Geiser ****************************************************************** * PictureTel Corporation, One Corporation Way, Peabody, MA 01960 * * (508) 977-9500 x253 (email: uunet!pictel!geiser) * ****************************************************************** "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." - Oliver Wendell Holmes.