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Micro ISV, Duke Nukem And Swine Flu – Damn! There's a Link?

Micro ISV, Duke Nukem And Swine Flu – Damn! There's a Link?

by Scott Kane on 07. Jun, 2009 in Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

With many local schools closing these last few weeks in the Northern part of Melbourne due to an outbreak of…

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Scams Not Good Enough? Now Download Sites Are Stealing Your IP Too!

Scams Not Good Enough? Now Download Sites Are Stealing Your IP Too!

by Scott Kane on 30. Nov, 2008 in Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

If you are a regular reader of this blog you’ll know I detest and loathe download sites.  I won’t reiterate all the reasons for this in this article, if you’re curious please see the Download Site’s Are Spam category of this blog. I try to follow these scum merchants and their proclivity for the advancement [...]

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Starting An ISV? No Domain Knowledge? Go To Incubator, do not pass Go, do not collect a Registration…

Starting An ISV? No Domain Knowledge? Go To Incubator, do not pass Go, do not collect a Registration…

by Scott Kane on 11. Sep, 2008 in Download Sites Are Spam, General ISV Issues, Starting an mISV

At least in the sense that I have here previously. Instead what this article attempts to address is a link between “download sites” and “domain knowledge” and how they have utterly nothing to do with each other and why you should care…

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Another nail in the coffin

Another nail in the coffin

by Scott Kane on 21. Aug, 2008 in Download Sites Are Spam, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Starting an mISV

If you’re a regular reader you’ll know I have an extremely low opinion of software download sites. I blogged about them recently.

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If It Quacks Like A Duck It's Shareware Mate!

by Scott Kane on 08. Apr, 2008 in Download Sites Are Spam, ISV Software Design, Uncategorized

..Or Getting Rid Of That Infernal Noise A lot of folks are going to get incredibly annoyed at this entry (you know who you are). OK.  I’m a moderator of three Usenet big 8 newsgroups (comp hierarchy) and they relate specifically to so called “shareware”.  I’ve been the moderator there since there inception a decade [...]

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