Re: tlug: Re: Many Faces on Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "ash" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:
> 
> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <- 3Web <jq@example.com>> writes:
>     Jonathan> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:
>     >>> After your and Jonathan's post, I realized that I have be
>     >>> living in a (UNIX) shell too long. The shareware movement
>     >>> seems to be mostly PC based, or rather most (all?) of what I
>     >>> use is not shareware.
> 
>     Jonathan> If people could write open source shareware and make
>     Jonathan> money on it while providing source to registered users
>     Jonathan> (at least, and maybe to everyone), the ability to make
> 
> Uhhhhhm.  What do you guys think Ghostscript is?  Chopped liver?
> 
> I don't know that "shareware" is going to make it on Linux.  But I
> think we will start seeing a lot of commercially restricted open
> source licenses.  I can see a market for shareware to some extent, but 
> I think shareware is probably on it's way out.
> 
> Shareware is good approach for single-application utilities.  But
> Linux makes it just too easy to emulate the basic capabilities, and
> the really basic stuff goes free too fast.  Look what happened to
> pkzip, for example.  There's never going to be a shareware compressor
> on Un*x.
> 
> A shareware window manager or spreadsheet?  I doubt it.  I think the

It's already been done.  WingZ is a shareware spreadsheet for Linux.


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