Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvra.cv.hp.com!everett
From: everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Shareware is junk
Message-ID: <40790008@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 30 Apr 91 22:22:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.174659.9082@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Lines: 20

/ rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes...
>FLAME ON
>My suggestion to budding shareware programmers is give
>us a MOSTLY fully functional program with no stupid
>order forms, warning boxes, etc. To insure registration
>just reduce the functionallity on a few functions
>(eg. allow it to print only a few pages, limit the 
>size of the image, etc.).
>Try to act like a professional programmer before you
>act like a bean counter and you will end up with a better
>product and more people will want to pay for it.
>FLAME OFF

I agree with your flame (for the most part), but the problem with your
suggestion is that many other people hate IT, calling that type of product
"crippleware".

Everett Kaser                   Hewlett-Packard Company
...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett        work: (503) 750-3569   Corvallis, Oregon
everett%hpcvra@hplabs.hp.com    home: (503) 928-5259   Albany, Oregon