Re: Perhaps a funny question...

Ingvar Nilsen wrote:

>> It sold enough copies to make it worthwhile

> How did you get possible customers' attention?

I think the freeeware for personal use thing worked well in my favor.
There weren't many good text editors available at the time to replace
Notepad, so Prolix fit in a nice little niche. I guesstimate downloads
from my own site at well over 100,000 now.

So, of all those 100,000 freeware users, some few like it enough to
have their work buy a copy or three. So it directly led to the pizza
and beer money that way.

Plus, one of those companies bought a source code and distribution
license, and became one of my best consulting customers. Over the years
this has bought pizza, beer, compilers, toolkits, and a couple of
computers. Not a bad indirect return for a freeware text editor.


>> but you might at least make pizza and beer money :)
> What else do you need? ;-)

Just a high speed internet connection. With those three things at hand,
at least a weekend can be perfect.
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