Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!jmm
From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.195331.23064@eci386.uucp>
Date: 21 Feb 90 19:53:31 GMT
References: <13986@s.ms.uky.edu> <33975@watmath.waterloo.edu> <34392@watmath.waterloo.edu> <17981@rpp386.cactus.org>
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
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In article <17981@rpp386.cactus.org>
    jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
| 
| The companies posting in those newsgroups do not advertise jobs [ except
| for recruiters, but they are asked to behave themselves ] or sell dinette
| sets or hold conferences as their principle source of revenue.
| 
| Commercial software developers are not posting on comp.sources.unix.  The
| only organizations who principle revenue source is software distribution
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| and who are posting their "product" to the net are shareware authors.
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(Brad, grab that one for rec.humor.funny)

I'd be surprized to hear of anyone making a decent living by distributing
shareware over the net.  There are a handful of people who are successful
using the commercial networks and local BBS's, but it appears that posting
shareware to Usenet does not produce very many paying customers no matter
how good the software (or how bad :-).
-- 
Algol 60 was an improvment on most           | John Macdonald
of its successors - C.A.R. Hoare             |   jmm@eci386