Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!aucs!peter From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: CrippleWare Message-ID: <856@aucs.UUCP> Date: 15 Feb 88 13:38:16 GMT References: <41550@sun.uucp> Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 37 in article <41550@sun.uucp>, fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) says: > > In article , rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) writes: >> >> ... [stuff deleted] >> >> This goes for demo versions of commercial software, too. Agreed that >> distributing demos is a good way to get exposed, but then again, >> anyone who's really interested is going to go to the dealer and look >> at it, anyway... > > This assumes, of course that dealers within a reasonable travelling > range have anything interesting to demonstrate. Or can actually demo > anything that they do have...no smiley. One local dealer can't even > seem to keep a Mac +/SE/II running for longer than a day or so. > > seh Our nearest Apple dealer keeps virtually nothing on his shelves. If you want a demo, you're out of luck. I personally like companies that provide demo software. One of the things that I do in my job is evaluate software so I can advise other departments here what to buy. Ideally, what I like to get is full-fledged versions of software strictly for evaluation. Most companies don't have such policies. I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I called Silicon Beach about Silicon Press. They were pleasant to deal with and could answer all my questions about the product. I was even more pleased when he said he'd send me out an evaluation copy, no charge. I didn't even ask! He said that they find sending evaluation copies the cheapist form of advertising. If only more companies had that policy... APDA, and they had never heard of it! -- Peter Steele Acadia Univ. Wolfville NS Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP:{uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET:Peter@Acadia -------------Internet:Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU-------------