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From: ogasawar@noscvax.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: the death of shareware
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:58:16 EDT
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Summary: 

Jim Buttons (not his real name), the author of PC-File, gave a talk at the
U. of Hawaii PC Group meeting a couple of months ago and discussed the
concept and future of shareware.  He noted that the more recent
"big successful" shareware product was PC-Write which is not that new anymore.
I am hard pressed to point to any other successful shareware product like
PC-TALK/FILE/WRITE in the past year.

Seems like shareware is going the way of the garage startup company: still
possible, but ever harder to make successful.  I suspect that the only
kind of product that could become a real successful shareware product
is a painting program with animation capability...todd