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Why Port To PC? Shareware Still alive!

Posted by timothy on from the postcardware-is-the-nicest-form dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here is an interesting interview with Tom Anthony, describing why Ambrosia Software are porting their Mac games to the PC market. Do you think their games can really sell after being ported? I thought shareware was dead, but all their games are still using shareware as well."

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  1. Re:Shareware is FAR from dead! by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Blasphemer!

    Who dareth speak bad about gVIm.

    VI and Gvim are the only true editors and are free and have a win32port.

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  2. Re:Shareware is FAR from dead! by Fnord · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    True productivity is having an elisp macro do the work for you.

  3. Re:ughh porting by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and get sued for patent infringment by Microsoft. No thanks.

    Miguel de Icaza, father of Gnome and Mono got moderated as 1 -flamebait. lol. Never thought I would see the day.

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