Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!rs4u+ From: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: CrippleWare Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 88 18:34:42 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 20 Personally, I think that "CrippleWare", that is, software that intentionally has features disabled or rude messages that repeatedly are displayed, with instructions to send money in order to get the features working/remove the message, is the lowest form of nastiness. I figure the following: If I release a piece of shareware, people are either going to like it enough to send me some money, or they aren't! No amount of irritation by putting in messages, disabling features, etc, is going to change that. Besides, it's a real pain to have to maintain two versions of the program; one crippled, one not. This goes for demo versions of commercial software, too. Agreed that distributi demos is a good way to get exposed, but then again, anyone who's really interested is going to go to the dealer and look at it, anyway... --Rich Aw hell, what do I know.