Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Public Domain, Shareware, etc. Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 16:07:08 GMT References: <9007270846.AA13467@thep.lu.se> <6653.26b2f818@vax1.tcd.ie> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <9007270846.AA13467@thep.lu.se>, magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson) writes: > Is there a name for a distribution form which is like shareware, but you > don't *have* to pay for it, even if you keep it (but are encouraged to do > so)? "Shareware" Anyone who thinks there's anything more to shareware than this is just deluding themselves. The only way to enforce shareware registration and donations is by crippling the distributed version, or distributing a demo. And that's not shareware... it's just an innovative method for advertising commercial software. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`