[Cialug] Fwd: Remember Trumpet Winsock?

[Matthew Steven]

Great story.

He was charging a pretty stiff premium ($25) for it, that's probably why 
it was pirated. If there's one lesson I've learned from years in the 
software business, if you want to charge for something, it's only worth 
what people are wiling to pay for it, not what your own greed dictates, 
and somewhat counter-intuitively you can often make a great deal more by 
charging less.


On 01/-10/-28163 01:59 PM, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> interesting, I just made a trumpet winsock joke the other day
>
> -barry
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> If you're like me, you may recall Trumpet Winsock, that nifty little 
> bit of
> software that provided an interface from windows to the TCP/IP protocol
> stack that people all over the world used to connect to the internet 
> for the
> first time.
>
> So, it turns out, the guy who made this didn't make crap off his work.
> Trumpet Winsock was stolen and actively given away on install disks 
> from all
> the major tech magazines and in corporate installs. He was just a 
> small time
> guy and his company had no way to fight the rampant theft.
>
> His name was Peter Tattam. Someone on reddit thought it'd be a good 
> idea to
> start a donation pot to see if folks would pony up for the software that
> made it possible for them to get to the big wide web. I did. :)
>
> So, go on by if you used it, toss a chip or two in. It's a nice thing 
> to do.
>
>
> http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
>
> -Deech
>
>

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