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Re: IDL Shareware [message #18545 is a reply to message #18527]

Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Bob Stockwell (dejastockwell@my-deja.com) writes:

> PPS hey, the hell with RSi, dfanning.com should put
> up the page. Dave deserves more money!

I'll be looking for your check in the mail, Bob. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. There is a place on the Internet (the name
escapes me right now) that is set up to handle
all the financial details of distributing shareware.
But I presume it will be too expensive for the
author at the kind of volume we are talking about
here (< 10 copies, apparently).

I agree about the crippling thing, though. It's not
worth it, just in terms of the time it takes. I think,
now, it's probably better to just give the source
out and let people's natural honesty shine through.
(I don't get that many reports of people stealing
my book. But perhaps it's because I practically
give it away to anyone who gives me a good story
and has a sense of humor.)

But setting up a proper shareware site, distributing
funds to authors, etc. requires a better web page
than I know how to build at the moment. I think you
will have to get some commercial shopping cart
software to handle it. That means coughing up
some money you hope to recover with shareware fees,
which--I have to tell you--seems more and more
dubious. :-(

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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		Re: IDL Shareware By: Mike Schienle on Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL Shareware By: davidf on Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL Shareware By: Mike Schienle on Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL Shareware By: Mike Schienle on Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00
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		Re: IDL Shareware By: ronn on Fri, 14 January 2000 00:00
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