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From: ras671@unhd.unh.edu (Robert A Seace)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: A better reminder/cripple? (Was Re: Shareware is junk)
Message-ID: <1991May4.195941.20614@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 19:59:41 GMT
References: <1991May1.153211.21245@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991May3.133447.21207@nmt.edu> <1991May3.161211.2382@dsd.es.com>
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	I say simply release a full-function version without a bunch of
annoying "Register or die!" messages, and if people like the program and
aren't pirates they'll register the thing.  The crippled and annoying
programs won't do anything to force those who aren't going to register
anyway (i.e. pirates) to register, and might end up pissing-off someone
who might have registered, so that now they won't register.  If people
are going to use a program without registering it, there is absolutely
nothing that you can do to ensure that they register it, so why bother to
go to the extra trouble of having two versions of your program: a crippled
or annoying unregistered version and a fully-functional, non-annoying
registered version?

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