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From: jmorriso@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Crippleware
Message-ID: <1376@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>
Date: 20 Aug 90 03:40:47 GMT
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Reply-To: jmorriso@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
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Yet more crippleware crap!
FLAME ON
I realise writing WIndows programs is a tough business, but where the hell do
people get off calling programs that are totally unusable SHAREWARE.

I am talking about UNICOM. It seems other programers didn't like letting users
try out their software like GCP (no longer shareware. If he let people try
it out, maybe he would have had some success with it.) 

Someone said the new unicom would have the annoying features disabled.
I've got version 2, and I don't see any reference to a temporary license
number, so all I can asssume is that the program is almost completely
CRIPPLED until you plunk down $45 US, or almost $60 Canadian. I might as well
get CrossTalk fo Windows. It is probably better anyway.

DON'T REGISTER UNICOM. Personally, I think this guy is using network bandwidth
and modem time to send out 200kbytes of promo. This is worse than those stupid
Lotus demo disks. People like this give shareware a bad rap. I think the
assoation of shareware profesionals would be unhappy to see this kind of
going on.

If someone tells me I'm wrong about this, and there is a way to USE Unicom,
I'm not going to apologize, because he did this on his other versions.

FLAME not off YET!

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