Barrapunto

el sentido comun dice que no.

Ni siquiera ellos mismos lo saben:

Nag screens and other limitations might increase registrations on smaller programs but a look at history shows every program that became a "standard of the industry" have used no registration incentives designed to annoy the user. These include WinZIP, PKZip, AsEasyAs, Procomm, Telix, and the trend goes back to even PC-Talk, PC-File, and PC-Write. These are the real money-makers (along with major games like Doom of course).

Los ejemplos (y otros como McAfee al principio) muestran que se puede vivir del shareware. Hay mucho de habilidad de márketing en esto.