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In article <badger.826305026@phylo.life.uiuc.edu>
badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:

> I'm not demanding anything -- I'm merely stating that 1) Shareware is
> not profitable -- that's why you get zillions of whining shareware
> authors who are shocked that the money isn't rolling in. and 2) In the
> more civilized UNIX world shareware is considered to be in bad taste,
> and freeware is plentiful. Consider Sanjay's Mahjongg program. I'm
> aware of three UNIX versions of the game -- all of them
> free. 

Okay, first off, it's not true that "Shareware is not profitable".
Stand Alone (currently two people) make most of our living off of
shareware...time limited shareware at that. Wake Up Week has won
numerous awards, both in shareware-only and shareware/commercial
categories...not too much of a blight, I hope ;-)

Second, while I'm sure that for the UNIX world shareware is in bad
taste, here on planet earth (my world, as I like to call it...)
shareware is a perfectly acceptable method of compensation for what can
amount to hundreds of hours of work.

I've re-labled all our releases on AOL as shareware/30-day demos, so
you can pick the terminology you prefer :-)

Ben

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