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Originally Posted by Happ
Hey, remember shareware? That was a neat idea: download it, try it, pay for it if you like it enough to continue to use it.
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There is a pretty heated discussion about this topic on a (private) games industry forum I'm a member of. Quite a few people are strongly and vocally in favour of reintroducing shareware to the mass market.
In it's day, it depended on magazine cover CD's to get it's products out there - and when the focus moved on from them, it faded away. But now, the majority of customers have fast enough computers to download the shareware...
I think they have a good point, myself. Heck, what do you call Baen's free samples of books other than shareware?