Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: CrippleWare Message-ID: <41550@sun.uucp> Date: 10 Feb 88 20:01:34 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 18 In article , rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) writes: > > 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. > > This goes for demo versions of commercial software, too. Agreed that > distributing 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... This assumes, of course that dealers within a reasonable travelling range have anything interesting to demonstrate. Or can actually demo anything that they do have...no smiley. One local dealer can't even seem to keep a Mac +/SE/II running for longer than a day or so. seh