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Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money

Posted by timothy on from the change-that-if-you-care-to dept.

omast writes "It appears that Peter Tattam, creator of Trumpet Winsock, got very little for this piece of software. For those of you who do not remember — or did not need it because were already outside the MS Windows world — Trumpet Winsock was a shareware program that provided TCP/IP functionality to Windows machines back in 1994-1995. It allowed millions to connect to the Internet back then; I was one of them. According to the article, Tattam made very little money from the program as it was widely distributed but rarely paid for."

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  1. Re:I'm sure he did fine... by Firehed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Value is not measured in hours, otherwise sports stars would be making about $10k/year. Creating software that allows millions of people to connect to the internet definitely provides value. I would certainly argue that a dollar a person is on the low side.

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  2. Re:mIRC by hoggoth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You didn't even remotely address the question. Out of those 32 million downloads, how many have paid for it?

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