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- From: snodgras@cs.unca.edu (Ryan Snodgrass)
- Subject: Re: A better way to entice registrations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.181152.6698@cs.unca.edu>
- Keywords: Shareware registration Cyrillic editor Russian UK Thomson Cyril
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- Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
- References: <1iitbaINNlef@crcnis1.unl.edu> <s1110238.726574439@giaeb> <1993Jan10.152944.12391@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:11:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.152944.12391@ncsu.edu> mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais) writes:
- >In article <s1110238.726574439@giaeb>, s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Lee Hollingworth) writes:
- >|> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
- >|>
- >|> >My feeling was that software crippling _detracts_ from potential
- >|> >registrations.
- >|>
- >|> >Now comes the enticement: if you register the program, you get a set
- >|> >of keycap stickers that you can adhere to the keys, [...]
- >|>
- >|> >This is crippling in reverse! Instead of *disabling* a feature of
- >|> >the program, the author offers an *addition* to it. This is
- >|> >intelligent, positive marketing.
- >|> ^^^^^^^^^(just a marketing play on words)
- >|>
- >|> What is the difference between disabling a feature and offering an
- >|> additional feature upon registration, just a few words?
- >[Spell checker removed]
- >
- >No. The language program is fully functional as it is. Everything works.
- >However, upon registration, the stick on letters for the keyboard make using
- >the processor more convenient. Nothing extra is enabled; the on-screen 'board
- >can be turned on/off in all versions, just the Press-on letters enhance the
- >editor. Disabling the spell checker in your version prevents users from doing
- >any spell checking. This is something that is definitely crippled in your SW
- >version.
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- Yes, but after registering two or three programs you have fifty million key
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- caps on each key creating total havoc. I think a more advanced version
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- should be offer and not even display any feature on the shareware (or Lite)
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- version that is not implemented in it.
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- Ryan
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