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[vdsalchemist]

Well it is not just the vds extensions that I am talking about here. The Gadget dll adds alot of abilities to VDS and more or less opens the language up for all kinds of possibilities but I know it will never be my bread and butter. I will not be able to see a return from that DLL until I finish building the programs that use that DLL. The biggest problem is trying to make it through until I get some shareware together. I was hoping that Gadget would have faired a little better than it is so I could take the time and finish my other products that use VDS and Gadget....
It is one thing to keep your prices low and get a lot of sales but it is another when you do put your price low and your still not getting alot of sales. If I raise my price a little and get just a few sales then that is better than leaving my price low and still get about the same amount of sales. At least that is how my logic works on this subject.
Maybe I am wrong here but I did not do like C/Net and tell everyone oh sure use our web site for free and then after I got everyone on the bandwagon start charging for it. My web site clearly states that during the public beta I was releasing the Gadget software at an introductory price but after the beta the software's price would increase a little bit. I would not be robbing any VDS user by charging the VDS user a little more for a very well built product that not only gives them abilities that they currently do not have and saving them money in the long run because they now have more choices.
How many Delphi components have you guys bought over the years? How many times have you told the vendor of those components,
"Many Delphi users are personal users, already had to pay for Delphi and yet again have to pay a fee for being able to use a Delphi component."

I only used Delphi as an example here...Other languages such as Visual Basic with ActiveX and C/C++ with both ActiveX and DLL's are in the same boat.

Well try this on for size...I have bought full blown languages spending anywhere between $85 and $200 and the owner's of the language decides they have had enough and drops all support and either kills the language or gives it away as open source. When this happens any program that you wrote in that language almost becomes extinct by default and if your product depended on a specific functionality of the language you have a real hard time porting it to another language if you can at all....For the most part the reason that the languages owner decided to quit was because they were selling their product at such a low price that they could not keep their doors open any longer it is that simple....This has happened to me more than once and with very famous and popular languages that you buy off the shelf.....


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[cnodnarb]

I feel that banning c-net would not be an entirely good decision, but I don't believe that many of us will be visiting it a year from now in any case. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am a compulsive shareware buyer. When I see a well built shareware product that suits my needs at a fair cost, I purchase it. Usually it is from college students or those who are only temporarily shareware programmers (about 75% of shareware programmers do not stay that way) and I feel that these developers would not be willing to submit software for 99 smackers.

And what about the fantastic ideals of freeware and open source gnu, will they pay a submission fee?

I feel that it will be much harder to find what we are looking for on c-net in the future, so we won't be visiting it anyway, especially after we hit the wall of finding the tool on google faster than on c-net, unless we are looking for corporate software on a corporate budget, then c-net will be ideal.

CNodNarb

[Tommy]

Never have I bought any component for Delphi. The reason for this is because all the
major components are too expensive, usually are aimed at small to middle sized companies,
so that the "much cheaper priced" free components are much more attractive to me.

[FreezingFire]