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From: suh@cunixc.columbia.edu (Kenneth Suh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware. (and forking over the dough....)
Summary: Not worth it...
Message-ID: <705@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 27 May 88 02:07:56 GMT
References: <8805201655.AA26232@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: suh@cunixc.columbia.edu (Kenneth Suh)
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I hope this doesn't start that stupid shareware garbage thread...  I
might just send out the old messages to send everyone time :-)


In article <8805201655.AA26232@jade.berkeley.edu> CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes:
>
>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????

I tried it out and decided to stick with VT100.  Shareware isn't like
commercial software.  I don't have to send money to try it out.

>(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.

I might be wrong, but I hardly ever hear of anyone using Handshake
(except for you)


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

The first time, I read the above I read it as:

	Handshake, thats chicken feed...

I laughed at that one.


>(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)

If you need near perfect vt100 emulation(like double sized characters),
I prefer to have other features(like macros).



>Jonathan P. Crone


/ken




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