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From: kudla@pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
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Subject: Re: enforcement of Shareware
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Date: 16 Feb 88 19:47:31 GMT
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In article <42017@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In another article kudla@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (self proclaimed pirate) writes:
>>(I wrote that I made $50 off a shareware pgm of mine.)
>
>This is a joke right? What do you charge for your time? It took you less than
>an hour to write MacDoodle? More clearly stated, you should probably said
>"I got some money for 'MacDoodle 1.3'" because the word "made" implies that
>more money came out of the result than went in. Take the hours you spent in
>design, coding, testing, and debugging. Multiply this by $n where n is what
>you could have made writing code for anyone else (my guess is that n ranges
Let me apologize to those of you who don't want to see any of this. I
didn't mean to start a flame war, but I do love flaming.

First of all, I don't take kindly to those who edit my name. You better
believe I'm a self-proclaimed pirate, but what does that have to do with
how much I made off a shareware program? 

Second. Keep in mind a few points about my program. It was for the
Commodore 64, where "shareware" is generally taken to mean "public domain".
It wasn't a great program; it did what it had to do in compiled BASIC
and was thus pretty slow about it. It was very specialized, too: not
many Commodorians were interested in grabbing MacPix until MacGeoPaint
got written a few months after I got sick of 64's. Further, I released
the first two versions into the public domain without even any credits
on them (at least none the end user could see).  As a matter
of fact, I wrote the original program for my own use and found that
a few people liked it. By the time V1.3 rolled around, I had stars in
my eyes. I was asking for basically any loose change the end user had
lying around because I didn't even care. I didn't promote it; as far as
I know it's not even on Quantum Link. And finally, I wasn't in it for
the money. I'm a hobbyist, not a yuppie.

In short, grow up. Not all of us are concerned with profit-margins;
programming is recreation for me and I was espousing the fact that I
DID make money off ShareWare. In other words, I proved you wrong.

Not bad for a slimy pirate, huh?

   ------------Robert J. Kudla - Pseudo-Freshman Extraordinaire-------------
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