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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!ratsys.com!sunfish.ratsys.com!GeraldR
- From: GeraldR@sunfish.ratsys.com (Gerald Ruderman)
- Subject: Re: Crippleware? (was Re: Usenet news for Windows NT)
- Message-ID: <GeraldR.207.0@sunfish.ratsys.com>
- Sender: usenet@uunet!rational (Network News Desk)
- Organization: Rational Systems, Inc.
- References: <724570036snx@dartac.demon.co.uk> <1992Dec17.180450.25130@cognos.com> <BzF5Ms.ML9@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:39:58 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <BzF5Ms.ML9@news.iastate.edu> martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn) writes:
- >>>> The reader will likely be distributed as shareware with posting
- >>>> available when the product is registered.
-
- >I've also been frustrated to download a product only to find that
- >it's only half there. I'll give this some further consideration.
- >Perhaps I'll try a carrot instead of the stick and offer (expanded)
- >documentation and free upgrade(s) to registrants -- maybe even source.
-
- >I'm really not trying to be greedy here. This has been quite a fun
- >project to develop. Tell me your experiences! Maybe this crippleware
- >route is truly an unneccessary annoyance.
-
- I've downloaded editors that are crippled by not allowing saving work. They
- are useless to evaluate since you can't use them for anything but browsing.
- While I read much more than I post I still see this as pretty useless since
- posting (seems to me) to have many special issues in each installation.
-
- If you really want to cripple it limit the number of news groups you can
- read or put up annoyance screens.
-
- Gerald Ruderman geraldr@ratsys.com
-