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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: A better way to entice registrations
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- Keywords: Shareware registration Cyrillic editor Russian UK Thomson Cyril
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:44:19 GMT
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- In <syny.726700502@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> syny@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (R Craig Stevenson) writes:
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- >> What is the difference between disabling a feature and offering an
- >> additional feature upon registration, just a few words?
-
- >Let's put semantics aside. There are (at least) 3 methods commonly
- >used to encourage/coerce payment for shareware. The differences are
- >more than just words!
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- >1) disable a central feature. For example, you can try our editor,
- >but you can't save and files; you can try our database, but your
- >limited to 50 records per database. The goal is to allow you to try
- >the software out, but to render it useless for any *real* work.
-
- Just like to say, that I think that this method here is really only
- useful for commercial software.
-
- i.e. disable the Save button, or some such nonsense.
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- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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