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- From: walra%moacs11@nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: Online Help
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 23:56:36 +0100
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Chris Herborth in <9407181002.ar10314@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>:
- > By creating an ST-Guide hypertext file, you're creating a document that
- > can _only_ be viewed with ST-Guide, right? So the user will need ST-Guide
- > to view it. So the user will have to send the author some money if they
- > use it often.
-
- Currently, yes. Not an ideal situation.
-
- > we're opening up a large new "market" for ST-Guide.
-
- By now most shareware authors decided to change the status of their
- products to keyware, payware, cripple-ware etc, not without reason.
- I wouldn't expect users, who don't mind stealing software, to pay a
- fairware fee. Not a very atractive `market'.
-
-
- Michel Forget in <2e29bf485bd96@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>:
- > This problem has been solved, in my opinion. You can distribute ST-Guide
- > without paying for it, so people who produce free software will not be
- > left in the lurch.
-
- Distribution is free, but not useage. Users of the freeware distributed
- by Warwick would have to pay the fairware fee for ST-guide to make use
- of the online help supplied with the freeware package.
-
- BTW any application writer who supplies a hypertext is either using
- Holger's hcp or else has to develop his own compiler.
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-