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Article #1360Re: Why do people want PD software?
From: Simon Streltsov
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:58
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:58
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I would like to hear from some shareware authors, or anybody else has statistics : 1/ What is the typical percent of people, who register shareware vs. those, who just "try it for some time". 2/ How does it depend on price and availability of next version of the program after registration? 3/ How many people use shareware - popular things like pkzip and programs like calendars, drivers for special needs, stand-alone utilities... Maybe there is some statistics on SIMTEL regarding this? But it still will be number of people, who try, not of those who use it 4/ How many people get it from SIMTEL and other archives vs. those, who get it through mail-companies, who distribute disks with shareware? Any opinions? Thanx in advance, Simon Streltsov ! Disclaimer : PhD Student, ! I can not speak for the Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering ! Engineering Dept, ONLY because Boston University ! I claim to be a mathematician..
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!seismo!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!rpi!bu.edu!bass.bu.edu!simon1 From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software? Message-ID: <94148@bu.edu> Date: 20 Aug 92 13:58:31 GMT References: <1992Aug19.180643.24274@PA.dec.com> <1992Aug20.044317.4365@uwasa.fi> Sender: news@bu.edu Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: Boston University Lines: 28