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MrFlibble
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On the topic of shareware, here's an extensive account of the history of the shareware marketing model at the official website of the Association of Shareware Professionals:
http://www.asp-software.org/users/histo ... reware.asp
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Here's another nice quote about the shareware versus commercial game distinction, from John Carmack himself:
Doomworld: Doom's Episode 1 was one of the first (and one of the last) widely distributed shareware programs. Why was there no Doom2 demo/shareware of any sort?

Carmack: DOOM 2 was explicitly a commercial release. We sort of half heartedly did some shareware distribution with Quake, but I think the industry has almsot unanimously decided that the three or so level demo is the best test vehicle.

A lot of people consider themselves to have "finished DOOM" when they just finished the shareware episode.
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