Re: Thanks.

From: Matthew Jones (matthew_at_matthewdelme-jones.delme.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:02 +0100 (BST)

Does that mean virtually all software is shareware then? There are only a
few products I'm aware of where you can't try before you buy. Microsoft
can give you a 30-day trial of Office, so I presume that is marketed as "
shareware" too? And Borland Delphi, which has a trial version too?

I'm not complaining, just interested that the change to using shareware as
the default marketing method should have happened without notice. I do
recall thinking that we had to adopt a lot of the same methods myself some
time ago, but shareware used to mean (to me, broadly speaking) software
that continued working but which you should pay for. I just can't see a
difference any more.

/Matthew Jones/

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