Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-lcc!pyramid!bigbang!crash!spincus From: spincus@crash.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Shareware ideas Message-ID: <1066@crash.CTS.COM> Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 00:18:41 EDT Article-I.D.: crash.1066 Posted: Thu Apr 30 00:18:41 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 03:32:31 EDT References: <1611@rutgers.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: spincus@crash.CTS.COM (Scott Pincus) Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA Lines: 46 In article <1611@rutgers.RUTGERS.EDU> RFORSTER@UNCAEDU.BITNET writes: >From: > > ******** So What Do We Do ? ********* > > The solution I am proposing is that we Shareware programmers should >demand some form of royalty payment directly from those who would like to >distribute our works. The size of the payment could be quite small so >as not to add greatly to the costs of the disks and hence make it more >likely that the distributer would have a greater sales volume and user >copying of the distributed disks would be less. > > It is my opinion that this royalty could do great things for the >Shareware domain in general. The promise of some rewards would improve >the quality of existing works, would bring new ideas out of the dark, >would speed the debugging and enhancement process, and might prevent >some authors from going commercial. > > In consideration of the royalty is seems fair that the distributer >be given exclusvive rights to distribute that particular version (FLAME >PROOF SUIT ON) > What you are suggesting is exactly what Devware Inc. has proposed recently to the general Amiga development community (see posting a few days back). Scott Pincus President, Devware Inc. UUCP: crash!spincus ARPA: spincus@bbn.com US MAIL: PO Box 215 La Jolla, CA 92038-215 VOICE: (619)224-0796 evenings. Our motto: We will move no disk before its time