ShareWare vs Evaluation

[kid joe]

Hi

Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?
Having a ShareWare product that can be activated to a fully enabled
version of that product with a registration code has it's disadvantages
(given the numerous websites that post 'regcodes'), but ShareWare is also
a fast and efficient means in keeping a customer happy. Evaluation-ware,
on the other hand, where code segments are missing, represents a more
secure form of delivering a demo product that cannot be compromised - but
this is at the cost of possibly aggravating potential customers who would
need to download the full version after gaining access to it through a
legitimate purchase.

Any opinions or experiences?

Thanks

Joe
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[Nick Keighley]

On 5 Nov, 10:40, kid joe <spamt...@spamt rap.invalidwrot e:

Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?

<snip>

this is off-topic to comp.lang.c

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[Kenny McCormack]

In article <f9************ *************** *******@j40g200 0prh.googlegrou ps.com>,
Nick Keighley <ni************ ******@hotmail. comwrote:

>On 5 Nov, 10:40, kid joe <spamt...@spamt rap.invalidwrot e:

>Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?

<snip>

this is off-topic to comp.lang.c blah, blah, blah

Isn't it great? Someone pours their little heart out in a posting,
asking a perfectly legitimate question, including a very fine signature
block - and all they get is 2 little turds from our resident twits.

CLC at its finest, boys!

[Eric Sosman]

kid joe wrote:

Hi

Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?
[... message and obnoxious sig snipped ...]

No. Goodbye, kid.

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Eric Sosman
es*****@ieee-dot-org.invalid

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <ge**********@n ews.xmission.co mga*****@shell.x mission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

In article <f9************ *************** *******@j40g200 0prh.googlegrou ps.com>,
Nick Keighley <ni************ ******@hotmail. comwrote:

On 5 Nov, 10:40, kid joe <spamt...@spamt rap.invalidwrot e:

Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?

<snip>

this is off-topic to comp.lang.c blah, blah, blah

Isn't it great? Someone pours their little heart out in a posting,
asking a perfectly legitimate question, including a very fine signature
block - and all they get is 2 little turds from our resident twits.

CLC at its finest, boys!

Why did you not provide an answer to the perfectly legitimate question?
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home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/

[Sjouke Burry]

kid joe wrote:

Hi

Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?

The worst thing to attract customers is crippleware.
If you want to show your software to a prospective customer,
it is very annoying to be unable to check out the full product.
Limited testing time, with activation code when purchased,
would be the way to go.

[Keith Thompson]

kid joe <sp******@spamt rap.invalidwrit es:

Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?

No. This is comp.lang.c. Your question has nothing whatsoever to do
with the C programming language.

And your signature is 33 lines long; the generally accepted maximum is
4 lines. If you continue posting with your huge signature, people
will ignore you, and you'll never get any help here (except perhaps
from the trolls, who can't be trusted to give accurate information).
I believe you are being deliberately obnoxious about this. Please
knock it off. (And no, this has nothing to do with fixed-width fonts;
I can see the picture just fine.)

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <K9********@cwi .nl>, Dik T. Winter <Di********@cwi .nl>
rhetorically and sarcastically asked the question below:
....

Isn't it great? Someone pours their little heart out in a posting,
asking a perfectly legitimate question, including a very fine signature
block - and all they get is 2 little turds from our resident twits.

CLC at its finest, boys!

Why did you not provide an answer to the perfectly legitimate question?

Because *I* understand (and know enough to adhere to) the maxim that if
you don't have anything useful to say, say nothing at all.

The CLC regs would do well to follow this.

[Phil Carmody]

ga*****@shell.x mission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

In article <f9************ *************** *******@j40g200 0prh.googlegrou ps.com>,
Nick Keighley <ni************ ******@hotmail. comwrote:

>>On 5 Nov, 10:40, kid joe <spamt...@spamt rap.invalidwrot e:

>>Can anyone share their experiences regarding which approach (ShareWare vs
Evaluation-ware) works best to protect profits and keep customers pleased?

<snip>

this is off-topic to comp.lang.c blah, blah, blah

Isn't it great? Someone pours their little heart out in a posting,
asking a perfectly legitimate question, including a very fine signature

\ ;;'.--.___.--.`;;
;-( o )=3D( o )-;
( `--' | `--' )

Why does he have an '=3D' in the middle of his glasses frame?
It's not very fine, it's not even fine, or even passable.
It's a crap signature.

More size does not equal more worth. Usually the opposite.

block - and all they get is 2 little turds from our resident twits.

CLC at its finest, boys!

Well, if you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to read it.

Phil
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extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children
smart. -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), American editor and critic

[Keith Thompson]

Phil Carmody <th************ *****@yahoo.co. ukwrites:

ga*****@shell.x mission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

[...]

>Isn't it great? Someone pours their little heart out in a posting,
asking a perfectly legitimate question, including a very fine signature

\ ;;'.--.___.--.`;;
;-( o )=3D( o )-;
( `--' | `--' )

Why does he have an '=3D' in the middle of his glasses frame?
It's not very fine, it's not even fine, or even passable.
It's a crap signature.

Why bother to mention the "=3D", as if fixing that problem would make
it acceptable?

[...]

>CLC at its finest, boys!

Well, if you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to read it.

Please don't feed the troll. Replying to "Kenny McCormack" just gives
him the attention he apparently wants. Don't play his game.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"