🚀 go-pugleaf

>>>>>> "Sanjay" == Sanjay S Vakil <sanj@athena.mit.edu> writes:

>Sanjay> I don't understand why people feel that
>Sanjay> crippleware/timeoutware is such a crime.  Sure, it's less
>Sanjay> ideal than 'true' shareware, but the market has expanded way
>Sanjay> beyond people you can 'trust' to send in shareware fees.  For
>Sanjay> example, I'm *sure* that there are more than 24 people out
>Sanjay> there enjoying Mahjongg, but the registrations have pretty
>Sanjay> much halted.  This is a powerful push towards crippling my
>Sanjay> next release.
>Sanjay> sanj

The real question is *why* people insist on writing
shareware. Shareware is a blight upon humanity -- by definition,
shareware authors are amateur programers who program for fun, and not
to put food on their table. Why not be a freeware programmer instead?
You have already discovered that shareware isn't very profitable -- at
least in writing freeware you get a warm fuzzy feeling of helping
society.  In the UNIX world shareware is basically non-existant and
freeware is plentiful -- gcc, emacs, TeX, the X Window System, hell,
even whole UNIX-compatible operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD
are freeware. Why not write freeware yourself? Are you really saying
that your Mahjongg program was harder to write than emacs? If not, why
do you demand money for it while no money is required for emacs?