Python Shareware?

Carlos Ribeiro cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br
Fri Jun 8 23:51:57 EDT 2001


At 02:39 09/06/01 +0000, Will Ware wrote:
>How does this relate to shareware? Publish an initial version for free and
>place it in the public domain. Include with it the URL for your website and
>an announcement that when you receive N hundred dollars in donations, you
>will fix any reported bugs and add several new features. As you work on the
>new features, periodically publish test output (not the code itself) as a
>teaser for the new features. When you've received the N hundred dollars of
>donations, publish the new code and place it in the public domain. Again
>announce that you will fix any new bugs and add some more features for
>some fixed total of donations. Repeat until you are fabulously wealthy.

May we call your proposal "good-willware", instead of "shareware"? 
<wink-and-duck>

Sorry. Could not resist :-)


Carlos Ribeiro






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