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From: CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Shareware. (and forking over the dough....)
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Date: 20 May 88 16:43:39 GMT
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Hi all....


I was talking yesterday to the author of Handshake
(the terminal program that does the near perfect emulation of
vt102 class devices....)
and i received one hell of a shock.....
he has been distributing the program through shareware for at least a
year.

He has received about 40 registrations.

Now COME ON NOW PEOPLE... that thing went out on Comp. binaries.amiga to
the entire net.... and even assuming that just 10% of the people that
get comp.binaries.amiga decided to use it , that
must be around 500-600 people right????
(if my estimates seem F***ed.. please correct me)

and maybe half of them decided to use it regularly.....
thats around 250 to 300 people.

so why is Eric Habenfuiler sitting there with only 40 registrations????

Come on now (gee i've said that twice now..)

SUPPORT YOUR SHAREWARE AUTHORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eric only wants $25 bucks.... and for a program as good as Handshake,
thats chicken feed.....

(Oh yes... lest people flame me.... I forked over $35..... simply because
i have not been able to find a better terminal package in ANY way shape or
form.)( well, ok... it doesn't have macros)


I have my force fields raised.... phaser me if you wish... but
it just sort of grinds on my nerves...
we have some fantastic software on the shareware scene for the amiga,
but no one seems to support the authors of it....

(OH yes... I DO know that no one in their right mind can expect to
LIVE off the procedes from shareware, but it is nice occasionally
to get a check in the mail once in a while)



JpC



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Jonathan P. Crone
Vice President, AURA,  (Amiga Users of Regina Associated.)
(Regina, Sask. Canada )    (eh???)

CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET
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come on now....  does ANYONE give a damn about what i have to say?
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