From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-26 15:49:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news2.central.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D6AB05D.30500@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? References: <3D66792F.F77550E@san.rr.com> <4519e058.0208260614.13d33ed4@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:49:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.central.cox.net 1030402174 68.12.51.201 (Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:49:34 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:49:34 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28435 Date: 2002-08-26T22:49:34+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > I thought "shareware" meant that the software is *not* free (neither in > the beer nor speech sense), but that payment is on the honor system > (try it out, and if you like it and intend to use it long term, send in > some money). Exactly. So this is the perfect way to answer Darren's question: -- OK, put it this way. The latest video game is released. Everyone gets to copy it for free. Indeed, before it is announced, everyone knows they'll be able to get free copies. How many copies actually sell?