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Article #810Re: Software Publishing
From: david lu
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 1990 04:27
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 1990 04:27
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In article <1990Jun24.214227.5186@xrtll.uucp> silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) writes:
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> By and large, distributing your program as shareware doesn't work.
>I've tried sending my programs to the shareware/public domain places
>
I totally agree. It's a bum deal for programmers. Just
think about it. If people are willing to pirate *commercial*
programs, how are you going to convince them to pay for share-
ware, which to most people is the same as public domain?
> So if you decide to go the shareware route, I hope you do well. But
- David
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---==lulu@ucrmath==--- just another bewildered college undergraduate.
David T Lu, Amateur Thinker: lulu@ucrmath.ucr.edu, {ucsd, uci}!ucrmath!lulu
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
- Geoffrey James, _The Tao of Programming_
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucrmath!lulu From: lulu@ucrmath.ucr.edu (david lu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Software Publishing Message-ID: <7357@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Date: 30 Jun 90 04:27:38 GMT References: <M1TDG00.90Jun21085217@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov> <1990Jun24.214227.5186@xrtll.uucp> Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 18