At 07:46 AM 12/1/98 -0500, Rich Kulawiec so eloquently stated:
>On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 02:30:01PM -0800, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>> The shareware idea has been adopted by so many companies, I practically
>> forgot it's roots. I download "evaluation" copies of software all the
>> time...and am glad that I'm given the option to "try before I buy" (I think
>> that term was coined in the Shareware world).
>
>That's not shareware. That's commercial software with a limited trial period.
>
>Shareware is commonly found in the PC & Mac world, is most often written
>by individual authors, and comes with documentation that asks for
>a voluntary donation.
>
For a marvelous story on the history and father of shareware (Jim
Knopf) visit "The Father of Shareware" at
http://www.halcyon.com/knopf/jim Jim wrote PcFile or Easy File.
I like the part where he started receiving Post office bags of
envelopes with money in them. So he quit his day job ;-).
George
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