I doubt if anyone at GDW even knows what shareware is much less understands
the concept. There are no computer jocks (at least that I know of) with
the company. Almost all their software comes out of house. Oh they write
a few small programs for their PCs, but that is the extent of it. The office
PCs are used for standard business programming (mainly text processing). A
few of them may even have a PC at home. GDW as an business is not currently
on any computer network (although I am told that one of the staff is
privately).
If approached correctly you should have no problem, but shareware is not a
concept that is easy for non computer programming types to understand. You have
to stress that this is a simple playing aid that anyone could write for themselves
and all you are doing is saving them the trouble. You should minimize
the profit side of it, but not hide the fact that you are asking money.
They have been pretty liberal in the past about giving permission to zerox
out of print games, etc..
At any rate, I'll be seeing Frank and Loren next week and if a get a chance
to talk to him and I remember (note we will be quite busy with other things
so this is very doubtful) I'll try to bring up the subject.
Non Cuniculus Est,
Tom Harris
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