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From: morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: enforcement of Sharewar
Message-ID: <278@brambo.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 00:29:37 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <8255@g.ms.uky.edu> <1398@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <1924@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Organization: Bramalea Software Inc., Bramalea, Ont.
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In article <1924@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>My two cents about shareware:  I originally distributed my Epson MX-80
>to PostScript translator (in a very early form) as shareware.  Total
>amount received: $0.

So why was it that you wrote the thing?  For your own benefit, right?
Total extra effort on your part, 0; total monetary benefit to you, 0.
Sounds about right to me.  Had you gone and added all of the stuff that
people asked for and still not gotten any contributions, then you
would have something to complain about.

I use one piece of shareware, Handshake.  I've made my contribution,
but it is a commercial quality program that works amazingly well, and
the author has put in many enhancements for his users, even some that
he felt didn't belong there.  But users wanted them and they got them.

If you had to fix your program up to sell it commercially, then it
really wasn't worth anything in the first place, was it?

>Clayton E. Cramer

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