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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: enforcement of Sharewar
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Date: 27 Feb 88 15:00:17 GMT
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(ShareWar: a whole new concept)

In article ... nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
>                                  You, like the other person who was
> disappointed by the lack of "sales" of their terminal emulator (no matter how
> nifty), were targetting a oversaturated market.  How about writing a program
> that no-one has even thought about writing?

As the "other person who was disappointed by the lack of ``sales''", I'm
getting tired of the backhanded slams I'm getting from people.

	1. This was two years ago.

	2. This is still the only terminal program I've seen for the IBM-PC
	   that emulates the VT100 well enough to keep EDT happy on both RSX
	   and VAX/VMS.

	3. This is still the only terminal program that understands that an
	   IBM-PC has two serial ports... and allows you to use them both
	   effectively.

	4. And it's MUCH smaller than any of the "big name" programs out
	   there. It runs quite happily in a 192K DoubleDOS partition. Given
	   that COMMAND.COM and a bunch of buffers have to fit in there as
	   well that's pretty good. It may (it's been a while) even run in
	   128K.

	5. (to the people telling me nobody ever saw it) It was posted on
	   UseNet. So you should have seen it.

I was primarily "selling" it to see if I could get some feedback on what I
could do to improve it. And, I must admit, to get some ego boost. I had
previously sent stuff out freeware and gotten nary a nibble. I guess this
disqualifies me as a shareware author, but I've not noted that anyone else
has done that much better.

Since then I've given up on shareware. A piece of freeware that I recently 
posted to comp.sources.amiga and Compu$erve has now produced commercial
interest. Let's see if Software Terrorism works any better.
-- 
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-- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.