> > The lesson I would draw from the UnixTeX experience is ...
> 
> You need to do a lot of outreach (sales & mktg) to people beyond the
> net, because you can't move money over the net yet.

I didn't need to do this.  I distributed copylefted software on the
net for 2 1/2 years and got tremendous penetration and name
recognition.  When I expanded into the commercial world, it only took
about a year for the word to spread far enough by word-of-mouth for
me to get up to a healthy volume of inquiries (and customers).

Let's hear more experiences....

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