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From: ddl683@sarah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man)
Subject: Re: HAM
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.031850.20779@sarah.albany.edu>
Reply-To: ddl683@sarah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man)
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
References: <1991Jun26.061653.29163@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1991Jun26.164437.29261@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 91 03:18:50 GMT
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From philip@pescadero.stanford.edu come these immortal words:
>In article <1991Jun26.061653.29163@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, rjc@css.itd.umich.edu (Robert John Churchill) writes:
>|> HAM would be commercial or shareware. He really just wants to get it
>|> to as many people who want it as possible...
>
>What's wrong with doing both? It would be an interesting experiment:
>see how many copies are registered through shareware vs commercial sales.

	Didn't Don Brown and CE Software take this approach a few
years ago with MockPackage?  I know it was a shareware product, yet I
seem to recall a small shrinkwrapped "MockPackage" for sale at a
software store...

	Since CE has since gone completely commercial, I guess we know
which method was more profitable; on the other hand, I hardly knew a
Mac user back in '85 that didn't have "MockWrite," "MockChart," etc,
on their DA menu.  Can't really say the same today, though QuicKeys
comes close to ubiquitous.

>Philip Machanick

						Derek L.
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