In palm-dev-forum, Michael Schatz allegedy wrote:
>but I see this thread going back to the
>same argument as another and that is forcing the user to pay for the
>software.
This might be a subject more appropriate for the Pilot Entrepreneurs Forum
mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Please note that unless users pay their phone bill, power bill, cable TV
bill, car payments, etc., service will eventually terminate.
>I think as many will agree. If a user likes the software he will
>pay for it. There is no 'one way' to make it right. I think that we should
>concentrate more on making a product that is usable and desirable that the
>user feels compeled to regester it or feels like a complete smuck for
>freeloading.
In any case, there are four numbers:
(1). the number of people who will pay for freely available and
unrestricted
software which they like and use.
(2). this number, less those people who won't use crippled or time-out
software (3), plus the additional number of users who will pay to end the
annoyances or extend the time-out (4).
All the statistics I've seen say that (2) is significantly bigger than
(1),
thus (4) is much greater than (3).
I'd love to see statistics that prove otherwise.
Ron Nicholson
HotPaw
http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/palm/
