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It’s not that you can’t pirate software today; there are still cracked versions of Office and Photoshop out there. But today’s best business software can’t be pirated. You can’t torrent Slack, pirate ...

In our first article in this series, Selling software: Where have all the business models gone?, we looked at the problem faced by traditional PC indpendent software developers and explored why the ...

Sun's Simon Phipps has a nice description of an "adoption-led market", which differs from the traditional "procurement-driven market" commonplace in the commercial software market. "In this ...

While Doom's success had been a great validation of the mail order shareware model, the PC was changing in ways that made that model an increasingly poor fit. The traditional publishers started to ...

Capiche is a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new community of people who care about software to make the SaaS industry more transparent, together. Matthew Guay is Capiche‘s founding ...

You've probably heard the term bandied about in relation to Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, but shareware's roots go back far earlier. The concept originally emerged (accounts vary, but probably no earlier ...