Thanks, Richard.Those of you using Rev to develop products may appreciate this excellent article I stumbled across the other day:Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals <http://www.dexterity.com/articles/shareware-amateurs-vs-shareware-professio nals.htm>
The article contains lots of good advice for those who include making a profit as a major goal. Try as I might, I cannot.
I think the article should be retitled "Shareware artists vs shareware professionals." It is, to me, a question of the primacy of software development as an expression of creativity or a job. (Although I don't see secrecy and lack of sharing as an artistic trait, but directly related to profit motives.)
I have a job: customizing FlexWare accounting systems. OenoLog is my statement to the world as one with nearly 30 years in the business as to what I think 21st century business applications should look like. If the wine making world agrees, I stand to make a comfortable profit; if it doesn't, I have still have had the opportunity to indulge my creative muses.
Can you imagine an art teacher telling students they should paint what the public wants and spend as much time selling their work as they do creating it?
BTW, in today's economic society a certain level of profit motive is understandable. I'm not knocking it, if manifested in moderation: I just can't enjoy programming done for profit to someone else's specifications nearly as much as seeing my mental design concepts manifested on the computer.
Cheers!
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Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)
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