Alternative e-mail: dejal@iconz.co.nz, dejal@netgate.co.nz (from 1996), dejal@amug.org
CompuServe: >INTERNET: dejal@pobox.com or 100033,2435
Dejal Userware Web pages: http://pobox.com/~dejal/ or http://amug.org/~dejal/
Anonymous FTP: ftp.amug.org in the /pub/contrib/dejal directory
Snail: Dejal Userware, PO Box 33-1011, Takapuna, Auckland 1309, NEW ZEALAND
——— TANSTAAFL ———
Or “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.” This software is NOT free. It is made available on a try-before-you-buy basis, under the Shareware system. If you use it, please send the registration price to one of the addresses above (e-mail registrations accepted if paying by credit card). The prices of my various Shareware products are as follows:
• Dejal Sound Utilities™ bundle (includes registrations for the following four programs, plus a disk containing all Dejal Userware software and three (3) disks full of sounds): US$60
• SndConverter Pro™: US$25
• SndConverter Lite™: US$15
• SndPlayer™: US$20
• SndCataloguer™: US$15
• QuickEncrypt™: US$25
• Dejal Text Utilities™ package (including TextMerge, TextSplitter and TextConverter): US$20
• Dejal File Utilities™ package (including Create Suitcase, New Suitcase, Deleter and Resource Leech): US$10
All of my prices include international airmail and all other costs.
Each person who registers in full will receive a personalised Registration Licence Certificate via e-mail or airmail, and will be entitled to upgrade to future versions of that software at no further cost; I don’t charge an upgrade fee, even if the price has gone up since the current pricing when you registered. Registered Users are also entitled to free support via Internet, CompuServe or airmail. I will answer any questions you might have personally.
Note: Registrations must be in the name of an individual, and allow one copy of the application(s) to be used. Companies or organisations that wish to make the software available on a server or similar service must obtain a site licence. Please contact Dejal Userware for details.
You will notice that I have included a registration reminder in the application. I’m being friendly about it: just hit Return and it won’t bother you. However, to avoid having the dialog appear each time, you will need to register. The Licence Certificate that all Registered Users receive includes a Registration Code for each registered application. When you get your Registration Code, enter the information into the dialog you get when you click the “Personalise…” button in the About (or registration reminder) dialog. I was somewhat hesitant about including this reminder dialog in the application, but since the only people it affects long term are dishonest ones, it is worth it.
Remember: the Shareware system only works if everyone plays their part. Not paying for Shareware products not only hurts the authors, it ultimately hurts you, the users, if developers give up on distributing high quality software through the Shareware system. Paying for Shareware is not charity, it is your legal obligation if you continue to use the software after a reasonable (i.e. 15 – 30 day) trial period. Not paying is software piracy, i.e. theft. Of course, pragmatically speaking you’ll get more than your money’s worth.
One of my Registered Users put it very well:
“Shareware IS the practice of believing the best in spite of illusions to the contrary, a great manifestation of enlightened mankind, a fabulous opportunity to make real the ideal world we all seek, one shareware upload at a time, one shareware fee at a time. My response to those who don't pay their shareware fees (and I was one of them for about 2 years) is; you don't know what you are missing. I feel really HAPPY when I send a shareware fee! I even sometimes send a thank-you note to freeware authors. I do it because it makes ME feel good. Not paying is action from the belief in scarcity, a self-reinforcing and sad way of thinking/acting. Mailing a check strengthens the opposite attitudes, and therein lies the benefit to me.”
— Francis Martin, USA
——— Registration Form ———
The Dejal Userware Registration and Order Form is available in a separate file for your convenience. Or, you can use the “Print Reg. Form…” command from the File menu in most of my applications to print a more compact registration form, if you prefer. If you don’t want to send one of the full forms, simply jot down your name, address, any e-mail address where you can be contacted, the name(s) of the product(s) you wish to order and where you got the software from on a scrap of paper and include it with your money or credit card details. Please make out cheques etc to “Dejal Userware.”
Note that you can register online via my Web pages; I currently have two order forms there: a short “Express” one for quick orders, and a longer full form with the full range of options. Alternatively, if you have access to CompuServe, you can register some of my products online; simply GO SWREG and search for the keyword “DEJAL”.
All information you provide will remain strictly confidential, though I may include any nice comments you make about my software in the documentation, unless you specify otherwise.
——— Disk & AutoUpgrade Options ———
The following additional options are available. All prices are in US$ (as an internationally recognised and exchangeable currency) for people outside New Zealand, or NZ$ for New Zealand destinations.
The “disk” referred to below is the Dejal Userware distribution disk, which contains the latest versions of all of my Shareware products, plus my Donationware and Freeware programs, and a complete catalogue of the Dejal Sound Library — my collection of over 2,000 sounds (occupying about 66Mb at this release) — listing the details of each & every sound; and other goodies from time to time.
• Receive a copy of the disk (described above) when the next version after your current one is released (make sure you tell me what version you have!). You can order this even if you haven’t registered for any of my software. $10.
• Subscribe to the AutoUpgrade option: you’ll receive a disk whenever a new version of the program(s) you are registered for is released (to 8 disks). The best way to guarantee that you always have the latest version! $60.
Note that to qualify for the AutoUpgrade option above you must be registered for at least one of my Shareware products. You can register at the same time as ordering.
• You can order some disks from my Sound Library; the catalogue and further information is available on the distribution disk, or e-mail me for the list of sound disks available. (This information is included with my sound utilities.)
• I spend a fair amount of time writing and supporting my Shareware, Donationware and Freeware products. I would like to be able to afford to spend more of my time doing this. If you can spare a little more, you might like to make a donation to help me justify the time I spend on my Shareware efforts. I don’t offer anything in return for this, other than the knowledge that you are helping a struggling author to get ahead, or at least justify the time I put in. I’d welcome as little or as much as you can afford, be it $10, $50, or $200! Thank you in advance, and thank you very much to all those generous people who have donated in the past.
——— Dejal Sound Utilities Bundle ———
If you’re interested in my sound utilities, this is the easy way to register for all of them and get other benefits. If you want to keep things as simple as possible, this is for you! The Dejal Sound Utilites bundle includes:
* Registration for SndConverter Pro
* Registration for SndConverter Lite
* Registration for SndPlayer
* Registration for SndCataloguer
* SndRecorder and all the other Freeware products
* A copy of the Dejal Userware disk, containing all the software and my sound catalogues
* Three (3) disks full of sounds — you can specify which categories, if you wish
* Airmail postage, packaging and handling
——— Discounts & Payment Methods ———
I am currently prepared to offer a 5% discount on all of the above prices if you are paying in cash.
For small amounts in particular, I really would prefer cash, as banking foreign cheques takes a long time.
All prices are quoted in US dollars, since it is an internationally convertible currency. Note, though, that I can accept any major currency. Thus far, I have successfully banked US dollars, Canadian dollars, UK pounds, Australian dollars, Japanese Yen, German Deutschmarks, French Francs, Swiss Francs, Netherlands guilder, Swedish kronor, and of course New Zealand dollars, plus others I forget now.
I can accept cash and cheques (or “checks” to Americans), international money orders, and VISA, MasterCard, Bankcard, Diners Club and American Express credit cards. If you request, I will issue you a receipt together with your Registration Licence Certificate and disks.
If you pay by credit card, note that I have to charge your card in NZ currency, so the amount that will appear on your statement might be a few dollars off the stated price, due to exchange rate fluctuations.
——— Queries & Support ———
I strongly believe in communicating with my customers. You may have found, as I have, that many Shareware authors totally ignore their customers — if you write to them with a suggestion or question, they never respond. Not me. If you contact me, I will respond. I enjoy getting mail, especially if it has the word “Registration” on it. <grin> Do provide an e-mail address if possible, though.
Any queries you might have, support questions (for Registered Users only), or notification of bugs should be made via one of the addresses given at the start of this document (preferably Internet e-mail, if possible).
A note about the e-mail addresses: the dejal@pobox.com address should always be valid, even if I move service providers in the future, so please use that address. But just in case pobox.com fails, I’ve provided some alternative addresses. The same with the Web pages: try the pobox.com one first; it will point you to the correct place (which is currently the amug.org site, but may change in the future).
——— Distribution ———
You are welcome and encouraged to give this software away to your friends, user group, or anyone at all for that matter, provided that it is unmodified and you only distribute it in the original archive file as I release it. Do NOT distribute the application without the documentation!! You may not charge for the software, except a nominal copying fee.
Commercial software distributors have my permission to include any of my Shareware or Freeware in their collections, provided that: (1) they tell me that they intend to do so beforehand, (2) they keep the documentation with the programs, unmodified, (3) they only include the latest versions, and (4) they send me a complementary copy of the disc and/or publication when it is released.
The Dejal Userware distribution disk always contains the latest versions of all my software. Alternatively, you can ftp them from my new anonymous ftp site on ftp.amug.org in the /pub/contrib/dejal directory, from my new http://pobox.com/~dejal/ web pages (which maps to http://amug.org/~dejal/), or from sumex-aim and its mirror sites on the Internet, though my ftp site has the advantage of having all my software in the one directory, and you know they are the latest versions. You can also download my products from CompuServe, and you can probably find most of them on eWorld, AOL and Niftyserve, thanks to some kind Registered Users on those services, or on BBS-in-a-BOX and other CD-ROMs, and many other sources.
