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Unrestricted vs. Limited Shareware, In Dollars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-evil-or-less-in-your-coffee? dept.

mklopez writes "There is a belief in the online world that people will be more willing to compensate an author for a downloaded program that has full functionality, versus paying to unlock features in a shareware version. Someone actually put this idea to a test with surprising results."

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  1. Surprising? by rot26 · · Score: -1, Troll

    The result of the "real world test" was "it depends". Being surprised by that depends on whether you're an idiot or not.

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