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[11:07:53] <dsandler> Your shareware article
is getting some coverage in the
blogosphere today.

[11:08:12] <Slava Karpenko> that’s good =)

[11:08:53] <Slava Karpenko> what do you think about that?

[11:09:59] <dsandler> Of course, some of the reaction is respectful
disagreement, which you should also be pleased with. I think that a lot
of the negative response, though, comes from people who enjoyed the
cachet of shareware, as developers: It’s a little club of ”good guys”.
Perhaps we need a new moniker for these commercial outfits and
individuals; ”Independent Developer” or ”Small Developer” just don’t
have the ring that ”Shareware” did.

[11:10:41] <Slava Karpenko> yeah, i agree

[11:11:28] <dsandler> ”Vigilante Software Developers”

[11:11:40] <Slava Karpenko> Smileware!

[11:11:56] <dsandler> ”If you like this software, please smile as you send
us money”

[11:12:12] <Slava
Karpenko> sounds good ;-)

[11:12:27] <dsandler> Alternative: Peopleware. ”There are real people at
the other end of this software product.”

[11:14:57] <Slava
Karpenko> as if commercial titles are made by drones ;-)

[11:15:11] <dsandler> Aren’t they? :)

[11:15:28] <dsandler> (dsandler realizes he’s working on commercial software
in the other window; discovers that he’s a drone)

[11:15:46] <Slava Karpenko> lol