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From: long@sask.UUCP (Warren Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: enforcement of Sharewar
Summary: clever idea NOT devious,underhanded etc.
Message-ID: <1012@sask.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 16:43:47 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <121@ritcv.UUCP>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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This is a complaint about the 'protection' used by one author for
his shareware product:

> Perhaps the worst I have ever seen of this type is a program, DS, a
> progam to help move, delete, copy, etc. files on hard disks. While the
> program was quite good, and the request for money was small ($15), the
> program had a 10 second delay at the beginning and the end of a run.
> Instructions for disabling this pause were available only after you
> coughed up the $15.  This, to me, is a type of blackmail.  Since the
> use of this program is to be a quick utility that works faster and
> easier than DOS commands, a delay like this was way out of line.
> Needless to say, I don't use the program, and would never suggest that
> anyone else do.

I am impressed with the method used, and am surprised at the audacity
of the above user.  The author has found a very clever way of 
protecting his SHAREWARE product, which allows a user to sample the
product, yet requires an end-user to pay IF and only IF he/she intends
to use it regularly.

Warren Long           (long@sask)

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