How about the 'making perl in an executable binary' idea that I used to hear bantied about a lot? Wouldn't that (admittedly kind of pain in the butt) idea work?

Now...a word about open sourcing this...yes, he could. He would make no money, and to be honest - unless he has created a killer app and gets very lucky - he will be ignored and used and abused for it. I've been through that, so have other people I know. The far majority of users of open source software are A) incredibly cheap, B) downright rude and C) not interested in helping the project improve. It's a small core of people who do the real work, reap no benefits, and make the world a better place.

So...this guy wants to make a few bucks on shareware, all the power to him. Until we can figure out a decent micropayment structure for software, it's the best he can do to feel that his work has paid off.

Kickstart (the disillusioned)

In reply to Re: Re: shareware ideas?? by Kickstart
in thread shareware ideas?? by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.