brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (07/07/86)
With all this talk about Shareware, I thought I would ask two questions: 1) Does anybody on the net have a shareware success story to relate? 2) Does anybody on the net know somebody with a shareware success story? All answers will be kept confidential, and ballpark figures are fine. For example, did it pay enough to match what a good programmer would earn in the amount of time spent on it. Did it pay for your hardware? Did it pay enough to earn a living? Did it pay enough to hire staff? What was your suggested contribution, and over what period of time are your reporting over? Can you estimate what %age of users of your software sent in the dontation? ------------------- We've all heard the story of PC-Write, but I've heard so many failure stories that I wonder what the truth is|. The net contains a sizeable population of potential shareware experimenters... We should get something. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee) (07/09/86)
Thom Henderson of System Enhancement Associates up in NJ has written publicly
(in the Fido newsletter) and spoken to me personally on several occasions
about how amazed he has been at how much money they have taken in as
contributions for the ARC file archival/compression utility.
I'm not surprised, the program is worth loads of money to Messy-DOS folks.
If you're running it and haven't contributed... SHAME ON YOU!
Bdale
arpa: bdale@g.cs.cmu.edu
uucp: {bellcore, crash, hp-lsd, pitt, symmetric}!winfree!bdale