Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2002 09:26 PM
You are right on. Any early shareware author that tried the Linux market over the last 5 years was not looking at the demographic - highly geeky with perversions to the use of screw drivers. But now the Ma Frickert crowd is starting to use Linux. And here the shareware authors have a chance:
o Roblimo showed the way in the fact that shareware is very front end centric in their effort to make software easy to use. Just the thing that Linux lacks.
o To leverage the synergy the shareware authors should be developing frontends and tool kits and the install programs to go with it. I think alot of nongeeky linux endusers would pay $20 even if the core was a Open Source program, so long as it had a good GUI and easy install.
o There are business niches that need to be filled for the Linux platform. A shareware-Open Source pairing could fill the gap.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2002 09:26 PMo Roblimo showed the way in the fact that shareware is very front end centric in their effort to make software easy to use. Just the thing that Linux lacks.
o To leverage the synergy the shareware authors should be developing frontends and tool kits and the install programs to go with it. I think alot of nongeeky linux endusers would pay $20 even if the core was a Open Source program, so long as it had a good GUI and easy install.
o There are business niches that need to be filled for the Linux platform. A shareware-Open Source pairing could fill the gap.
Just a thought.
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