Wow, closed source shareware. I wonder if that's still a winning model. Shareware was about leveraging the now defunct sneakernet via physical medium such as f

Wow, closed source shareware. I wonder if that's still a winning model. Shareware was about leveraging the now defunct sneakernet via physical medium such as floppies and making it ok to copy software and give it to friends on the premise people who like it will feel morally obligated to pay a modest fee. The second part is still there but the first part is dead, long dead. I feel like you need to push this social capital and exchange back into the model somehow to bring it forward but not through nagware or review feelers. Something more real and unprompted