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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Shareware:  Success story survey...
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 11:20:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 11:20:47 1986
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

With all this talk about Shareware, I thought I would ask two questions:

1) Does anybody on the net have a shareware success story to relate?

2) Does anybody on the net know somebody with a shareware success story?

All answers will be kept confidential, and ballpark figures are fine.  For
example, did it pay enough to match what a good programmer would earn in the
amount of time spent on it.  Did it pay for your hardware?  Did it pay enough
to earn a living?  Did it pay enough to hire staff?   What was your suggested
contribution, and over what period of time are your reporting over?
Can you estimate what %age of users of your software sent in the dontation?
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We've all heard the story of PC-Write, but I've heard so many failure stories
that I wonder what the truth is|.  The net contains a sizeable population of
potential shareware experimenters...  We should get something.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473