{"id":2365,"date":"2003-02-23T14:05:56","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=303"},"modified":"2010-05-18T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:56:57","slug":"re-the-end-of-shareware-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/23\/re-the-end-of-shareware-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The end of shareware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <strong>Michael Tsai&#8217;s Weblog<\/strong>:<\/em><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/21\/is_shareware_dead.html\">Michael Tsai&#8217;s Weblog<\/a> linked to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=300#300\">this post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Is Shareware Dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slava Karpenko Erik Barzeski Rainer Brockerhoff Daniel Sandler Steven Frank At present, I call my software shareware. By that I mean that it\u2019s free to try and isn\u2019t crippled, although it will nag you. Users get support directly from me, and I\u2019m responsive to their suggestions. I encourage people to share the software (but not their serial numbers) with their friends, and it\u2019s available on various compilation CDs and at Info-Mac. But I guess I agree that the term \u201cshareware\u201d has become meaningless because everyone has a different idea of what it means. We stopped saying in ATPM reviews whether a piece of software claimed to be shareware. It wasn\u2019t a distinction worth making. After all, BBEdit now has a shareware-style trial, and it\u2019s backed by a responsive company, but it isn\u2019t shareware, is it? Instead, we list the price and briefly state whether you can try before buying and how the trial is limited (if at all). I should probably start doing this for my software. The question that remains is what to select in VersionTracker\u2019s the License popup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Michael Tsai&#8217;s Weblog: Michael Tsai&#8217;s Weblog linked to this post Is Shareware Dead? Slava Karpenko Erik Barzeski Rainer Brockerhoff Daniel Sandler Steven Frank At present, I call my software shareware. By that I mean that it\u2019s free to try and isn\u2019t crippled, although it will nag you. Users get support directly from me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-C9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}