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From: jkimble@nostromo.austin.ibm.com (The Programmer Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Get shareware off the network
Summary: have you really made any money from shareware?
Message-ID: <1652@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 90 22:57:03 GMT
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In article <1294@polari.UUCP> root@.UUCP (The Super User) writes:
>
>  The analogy here is if I started posting frequently to all of the groups
>that I carry an advertisement about my system; that's unsolicited purely 
>commercial activity, and I'd call that the same as shareware in this case,
>and I'd be writing an equivalent note about it.

I think a better analogy would be more like this:

You set up polari with a series of 1-800- numbers so each of us could
call and use your system at your expense.  If we find that we like
using your system, we pay you what we think it's worth (regardless of
how much it costs).  If we don't like using your system, we don't pay
you.

Personally, I'm not really all that against the Shareware people because
I don't honestly believe they get all that many people sending them
money -- especially not in the UNIX enviornment when we're all used
to seeing gems such as rn, Configure, perl, and emacs without having to
pay a dime!  I think the shareware people get about as much out of their
efforts as the comp.sources.misc people do:  fame.


I think the shareware concept was invented so husbands could justify to
their wives why they spend countless hours parked in front of non-sexy
computers.


--Jim Kimble,
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