From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:47:04 GMT
Date: 2002-08-26T22:47:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D6AAFC8.5090003@telepath.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D6A6238.A95AF7DA@san.rr.com
Darren New wrote:
> Carmack didn't release DOOM as shareware. He released it as fee-ware, then
This is wrong. You really should have read a bit more carefully. Wolf3D
and Doom were released as shareware. You are thinking of their GPL
releases, which are indeed downrev versions of their older titles. Until
sometime around the release of Quake, ID's sole income sources were
voluntarily submitted shareware fees and engine licenseing fees.
> later re-released it as shareware. My question was, if you knew you didn't
> have to pay for it ever, even on the first day, how many people would?
>
And this article answers the question with "if its as good as Wolf3D or
Doom (in their day), then more than enough for the whole development
staff to buy multiple ferraris" :-)
>>The most popular computer game of all time, Doom
>
> Considering that Myst has *also* been quoted as being the most popular
> computer game of all time, I'm not sure I trust either set of statistics.
Doom came out before Myst. This is an old article.
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2002-08-16 8:48 Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-16 9:14 ` Steffen Huber
2002-08-16 11:22 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-17 15:55 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 21:29 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 0:13 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-20 21:21 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 12:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-21 22:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 13:05 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-21 13:07 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-21 14:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-21 19:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 5:43 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-22 6:30 ` tmoran
2002-08-22 17:30 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 2:01 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-23 4:00 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 5:24 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-24 20:00 ` Excessive quoting and Outlook (was: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?) Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 22:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-24 21:57 ` mailers, quoting text etc. (was " Robert Dewar
2002-08-25 3:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-27 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-31 14:02 ` chris.danx
2002-08-31 13:58 ` chris.danx
2002-08-25 6:20 ` Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? tmoran
2002-08-26 1:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 4:42 ` tmoran
2002-08-30 19:21 ` data on cla messages, was " tmoran
2002-08-31 12:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-31 16:21 ` tmoran
2002-08-31 22:02 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-23 3:14 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 19:31 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-22 22:49 ` tmoran
2002-08-23 14:52 ` Software Economics was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-23 16:26 ` OT: " Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-23 18:19 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-24 3:33 ` Weston T. Pan
2002-08-24 5:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-24 13:16 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-26 9:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-08-26 12:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-26 14:25 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-27 10:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-27 19:10 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-27 22:23 ` Bill
2002-08-27 12:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-27 13:04 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-24 0:11 ` Software Economics Robert C. Leif
2002-08-24 13:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-23 17:55 ` Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Preben Randhol
2002-08-23 18:03 ` Darren New
2002-08-23 18:39 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-23 19:15 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 14:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 17:14 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 22:47 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-08-26 17:31 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-26 22:49 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-24 1:58 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-27 18:43 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-27 18:52 ` tmoran
2002-08-29 13:36 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-24 2:05 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 7:28 ` tmoran
2002-08-24 21:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 13:40 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-22 23:11 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-22 6:50 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-22 13:49 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-23 9:29 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-24 2:19 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-27 5:57 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-27 19:27 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-28 1:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 12:59 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-28 22:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-08-24 2:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 20:12 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-24 23:05 ` Darren New
2002-08-25 15:53 ` SteveD
2002-08-25 16:48 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-26 7:12 ` John R. Strohm
2002-08-21 19:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-22 8:19 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-22 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-29 16:03 ` Tucker Taft
2002-08-29 21:36 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-31 1:58 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-30 14:19 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-30 17:14 ` Richard Riehle
2002-09-02 20:50 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 15:00 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 19:52 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-20 20:50 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 18:29 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-21 22:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 19:34 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 22:25 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 19:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 0:08 ` BSCrawford
2002-08-22 1:19 ` Larry Hazel
2002-08-22 1:45 ` SteveD
2002-08-22 3:23 ` tmoran
2002-08-22 10:28 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-21 19:44 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 22:50 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 18:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 17:16 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-20 20:40 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 15:45 ` Richard Riehle
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