Re:Ask HN: Does Shareware still work in 2018?
by LeonB on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:30PM
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Shareware certainly did work for some, pre-WWW.
Distribution was not a solved problem back then, and required significant capital. Shareware use a viral engine of growth (though this did mean that there were far more products for which shareware didn't work versus the handle for which it did).
Distribution was not a solved problem back then, and required significant capital. Shareware use a viral engine of growth (though this did mean that there were far more products for which shareware didn't work versus the handle for which it did).