ogasawar@noscvax.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara) (08/24/85)
Jim Buttons (not his real name), the author of PC-File, gave a talk at the U. of Hawaii PC Group meeting a couple of months ago and discussed the concept and future of shareware. He noted that the more recent "big successful" shareware product was PC-Write which is not that new anymore. I am hard pressed to point to any other successful shareware product like PC-TALK/FILE/WRITE in the past year. Seems like shareware is going the way of the garage startup company: still possible, but ever harder to make successful. I suspect that the only kind of product that could become a real successful shareware product is a painting program with animation capability...todd
curtis@uwmacc.UUCP (Alan Curtis) (08/29/85)
> I suspect that the only kind of product that could become a real successful > shareware product is a painting program with animation capability...todd How about a nifty little multi-tasker? Or a C compiler equivalent to CHASM? Alan Curtis