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- register.doc - Copyright (c) 1995 Grizzly Bear Labs, last modified 1-30-95
-
- ISL is shareware. The registration fee is $25 per platform.
-
- California users need to include appropriate sales tax (8.25% as of this
- writing, for a grand total of $27.06). I may at some point in the future
- be forced to add a per-upgrade fee for postage, but for now the volume is
- so low it hardly matters.
-
- In fact, I prefer to send out updates electronically. If you have a stable
- email address and would like to get them this way, include said email address
- with your registration.
-
- There are two versions of ISL now: a freely distributable (FD) one, and
- a registered one. If you got this package bundled with some other package
- (e.g., Humanoid), you are not a registered user and do not have the complete
- version. If you got it from an archive site, you are not a registered user
- and do not have the complete version. If you got it from a BBS or a CD-ROM,
- you are not a registered user and do not have the complete version. Nobody
- but me, personally is legally allowed to distribute the registered version.
-
- The only way to get the complete version is directly from me, after sending
- in your $25.
-
- The FD version is slightly crippled. Specifically, the restage program will
- silently ignore effects. No errors will be produced, and the stage will work,
- it will just have it's effects stripped. destage does generate the ASCII form
- of the effects so that you can see what they look like. If you aren't using
- effects in your animation, the FD version will do everything you need.
-
- There are several reasons why I did it this way:
-
- 1: Registration fees to date have not even covered my on-going Imagine
- upgrades. This is downright pathetic, given the amount of work I've put
- into it and the positive feedback I've gotten on it. Put your money where
- your mouth is, guys!
-
- 2: My company, Grizzly Bear Labs, is starting to need more of my time. If I
- am going to ever become independent of my current day job, I need to get
- cracking on a profitable product. ISL sure doesn't appear to be one of those.
- The time I spend on ISL directly impacts other GBL development. If I am to
- continue to maintain and enhance it, I need some justification for doing so.
-
- Registration fees for ISL are reported to the IRS and the California Franchise
- Tax Board as GBL income. Since the amounts are so puny, I'm still running it
- out of my personal checking account, so please continue to make checks out to
- John Grieggs for now.
-
- 3: This is a lot of work.
-
- 4: Registration buys you a copy of either the Amiga or the PC version of
- ISL, and free updates for the forseeable future. I don't really know what
- this means yet, but it's certainly no less than the point where the current
- version is fully debugged. Note that this is a further tightening of the
- policy - register now before it gets worse still! :-) I think $25 is a more
- than fair price for any useful program. In fact, it's much less than the cost
- of a single Imagine upgrade! For a while there, your $25 registered you on both
- platforms, and I'll honor that for the few that took advantage of it. New
- registrations do not get this deal, and I reserve the right to increase the
- registration fee in the future if it seems to make sense at the time. Take this
- as a sign that waiting is bad.
-
- Please send your shareware fees, bug reports, and enhancement suggestions to:
-
- John T. Grieggs
- 1045 Locust St.
- Pasadena, Ca.
- 91106-1414
-
- Checks should be made out to John Grieggs.
-
- Bug reports and enhancement suggestions may also be sent to these
- electronic addresses:
-
- grieggs@netcom.com
- grieggs@primenet.com
-
- Phone support will be provided to registered users at 818-683-0675.
-
- Phone calls from non-registered users will be cheerfully ignored.
-