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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Auto-deleting shareware  (was:Re: Shareware)
Message-ID: <11147@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 06:59:33 GMT
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I can't speak for the rest of the world, but for me the big problem with
paying for shareware is that it is damned inconvenient to do so.  I can call
up a mail order house and pay by plastic.  I can walk into Egghead and pay
by plastic.  For shareware, I've got to go through a lot of work (writing a
check, putting it into an envelope, stamping it, and mailing it).  This may
sound ridiculous, but it is inconvient to me.  Share ware authors should get
together and form a company to collect shareware fees (there are some of these
outfits in the IBM world.  I've had good luck with them).

Many shareware authors fail to provide the promised support.  I've yet to get
a decent manual for 4DOS (for IBM PCs) even though I called them and gave them
my credit card #.  

I for one, am not willing to go out of my way to pay for *your* product.
This is a major problem with shareware.  Make it more convenient to pay
for it and I'll do so.  Till then, I just won't use it.
*** Randy Hyde