Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!pta!teti!nswitgould!nick
From: nick@nswitgould.OZ (Nick Andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <3803@nswitgould.OZ>
Date: 31 Dec 87 00:51:27 GMT
References: <2377@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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in article <2377@dasys1.UUCP>, samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) says:
> 
> Perhaps the original developer of the shareware/freeware concept made a
> killing because he did it at the right time. I do not think that it works
> anymore. 
> 
> Question: What motivates a programmer to develop a large complex software
> system, perhaps requiring many weeks (or even years) of development effort,
> which is then posted for the world to use, for free?
> -- 
> 	Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY
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