Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!bgsuvax!ritzenth
From: ritzenth@bgsuvax.UUCP (Phil Ritzenthaler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: enforcement of Shareware
Summary: a great shareware method
Message-ID: <1556@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 14:51:10 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl> <39450@sun.uucp> <8255@g.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: The Land Beneath the Forest Moon of Endor
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In article <8255@g.ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> In article <1012@sask.UUCP> long@sask.UUCP (Warren Long) writes:
> >> 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.
>
> >I am impressed with the method used, and am surprised at the audacity
> >of the above user.
> 
> I disagree. The author has released a product that is virtually
> unusable.  I would use it once or twice, get disgusted, and toss it
> out on general principle. So would most of the people I work with,
> and most of my friends.

Sean,

I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong.  The author of this shareware has a most
clever and a more and more often used concept used to bug you.

Yes, that's the idea . . . it's ==> SUPPOSED <== to bug the HELL out of you!
If you do like what the product does, you're not supposed to use it as is, 
you're supposed to send in your money and get the patch to get rid of the 
irritation.

If you want to use it, but not pay the piper, you must pay the penalty . . .
which in this case is TIME.
                                                   
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