Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!xylogics!bu.edu!mirror!rayssd!anomaly!mpd From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Crippleware Message-ID: <2675@anomaly.sbs.com> Date: 23 Aug 90 01:12:22 GMT References: <1376@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> <22080006@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917 Lines: 40 carlp@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Carl Peterson) writes: >Where did you get version 2.0? An anonymous ftp download? Are you sure that >it isn't version 1.4? Why do you assume it's crippled? Are choices not >available in the menus or documented features not present? It would help >if you described the problems your having. Why should we take your word >that 'CrossTalk fo Windows' is better if you haven't tried it! I downloaded v2.0 from a BBS in the Boston area. >I use UNICOM. I paid for version 1.4 and intend to upgrade to 2.0. I like >it. It does most of the things I want to do. I like the fact that it >supports Zmodem and Quick B. It does update the screen too slowly when I'm >logging and running MS-Windows 3.0 with a 256 color driver. But Hey, for >$60.00 it's great. I downloaded v1.4 from the same BBS and tried it. I deleted it after about 15 minutes because all of the important functions, which I wanted to test prior to registration, were disabled. Especially since the Max baud rate was 1200 baud, and I've got my serial port locked at 19200.... The "comments" section of the download said "Not CrippleWare!", so I decided to take the two minutes and download the new version (I have a Telebit and was downloading at 19200 baud, so what the hell...) Well lo and behold! Guess what! It was "Crippleware"! Not as bad as v1.4, but for my purposes (no downloading active) it was just as bad, since the biggest feature I had to test was the downloading capabilities - since my previous experience with downloading thru windows resulted in numerous timeouts and overall "no luck". I, for one, don't support Crippleware, and will never purchase a product which is released as Crippleware to the public. MD -- -- Michael P. Deignan, President -- Small Business Systems, Inc. -- -- Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com -- Box 17220, Esmond, RI 02917 -- -- UUCP: ...uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd -- Telebit: +1 401 455 0347 -- -- XENIX Archives: login: xxcp, password: xenix Index: ~/SOFTLIST --