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From: dowding@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (John Dowding)
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Subject: Producing Shareware
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 19:13:05 EDT
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I am looking for advice on developing a shareware product.
Could any of you with experience doing this please respond
to the following questions:

1. What did you develop your product in?  Specifically, if it was
   developed in a language that includes a run-time environment (like
   Lisp) did you have to seek an agreement with the language developer?
   Was the language shareware also?

2. How do you distribute your product with some reasonable chance
   of making a profit?

3. Is your product a shareware version of some popular commercial product?
   If so, is it of lower quality?

4. Once a product is released, how do you go about supporting it?

Thanks in advance,

John Dowding

dowding@bigburd.prc.unisys.com

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