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Article #5317Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
From: Ross M. Greenberg
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 05:21
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 05:21
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In article <15191@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>
>Shareware binaries work exactly as well on the net** as they do on BBS's
>and commercial timesharing services -- neither better or worse. You
>fling your handiwork to the winds and sit back and hope for a decent
>percentage of registrations.
Actually, you're wrong. UseNet is a lousy source of revenue for me. Seems
it is for most of the shareware people I speak to - I'll go so far as to
say that no one I know has made any money off of their shareware through
UseNet as a channel.
>
>Or if you're truly hopeless, you spend lots of time on the computer nets
>TALKING about all this instead of DOING it. :-)
>
I have the time to spend on the nets. Shareware has been very good to me,
Tom, except on the nets.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Message-ID: <1288@utoday.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 90 05:21:13 GMT References: <1235@utoday.UUCP> <17923@rpp386.cactus.org> <15166@bfmny0.UU.NET> <34268@watmath.waterloo.edu> <15179@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1268@utoday.UUCP> <15191@bfmny0.UU.NET> Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 26