My UNDER-Ware Now Being Sold Commercially
Posted: Tue 18 Nov, 2008 9:16 amIt's now finally been made public, so I'm allowed to talk about it. So...
Yay! My first publicly released software project (from back in 2001) has been bought out by a commercial operator, and they've just released their first new version of it (a GUI makeover, and re-branding), as announced by them here and briefly by me here.
UNDER-Ware, you ask? Well, I didn't want to call it shareware, because it was free, and I didn't want to call it freeware, because I wanted to encourage people to donate, if they felt like it. So I made up my own software license and called it UNDER-Ware (User Now Defines Entity Rights Software), whereby the user can 'pay' by any means and any amount they like. Although 99% of users never paid anything (which was fine by me), many did, and although 99% of those that did, just paid money, some of them did actually get the idea of UNDER-Ware, and I received a few interesting registration 'payments' in the mail, which was always better than money. Some of the registration 'payments' I received included a hand-drawn portrait of my wife, packets of exotic spices, variety of whiskey (labelled 'after shave' on the customs declaration - and I certainly used it after shaving... several hours after).
Anyhow, I'm pretty stoked that somebody thought my project was worth commercialising, and that I got a bit of money out of it, and that there's now one less project I have to spread my spare time between.
Yay! My first publicly released software project (from back in 2001) has been bought out by a commercial operator, and they've just released their first new version of it (a GUI makeover, and re-branding), as announced by them here and briefly by me here.
UNDER-Ware, you ask? Well, I didn't want to call it shareware, because it was free, and I didn't want to call it freeware, because I wanted to encourage people to donate, if they felt like it. So I made up my own software license and called it UNDER-Ware (User Now Defines Entity Rights Software), whereby the user can 'pay' by any means and any amount they like. Although 99% of users never paid anything (which was fine by me), many did, and although 99% of those that did, just paid money, some of them did actually get the idea of UNDER-Ware, and I received a few interesting registration 'payments' in the mail, which was always better than money. Some of the registration 'payments' I received included a hand-drawn portrait of my wife, packets of exotic spices, variety of whiskey (labelled 'after shave' on the customs declaration - and I certainly used it after shaving... several hours after).
Anyhow, I'm pretty stoked that somebody thought my project was worth commercialising, and that I got a bit of money out of it, and that there's now one less project I have to spread my spare time between.
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