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From: jwbirdsa@amc.com (James Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Shareware is junk
Message-ID: <1991May1.163820.15665@amc.com>
Date: 1 May 91 16:38:20 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.174659.9082@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <5101.281dc791@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Reply-To: jwbirdsa@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall)
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
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In article <5101.281dc791@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mgjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mike (Felix) Jones) writes:
>In article <1991Apr30.174659.9082@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>, rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
>> 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.
>Like the Windows comm program that pops up that registration info everytime 
>you try to do something.  I got so sick of it I said bag it and never really
>got to try it out to see if I liked it or not.  

Well, maybe you people should go talk to the folks who won't even look at
"crippleware" and advocate reminders. Until the users come to a consensus
on which they would rather have, there will continue to be both.

Personally, I neither cripple nor put reminders in the shareware I write.
And I get no registrations, either. Has anybody else out there had the
experience of an unregistered user writing email like "Your stuff is great,
I use it all the time. Do you suppose you could add feature X?"

And now, since this thread doesn't really belong in cbipd, please note the
Followup line...

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