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- DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE:
-
- Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it.
- If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to
- register. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration
- while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With
- registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the
- software to an updated program with printed manual.
-
- Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the
- copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated
- below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial
- authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are
- good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of
- distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute
- the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example,
- some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may
- copy their Shareware.
-
- Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find
- software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or
- Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you
- can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also.
- Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the
- product, you don't pay for it.
-
- DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT:
-
- Users of RATE MASTER must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "RATE MASTER
- is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied,
- including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of
- fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct
- or consequential, which may result from the use of RATE MASTER."
-
- RATE MASTER is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user
- for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not
- give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of
- "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality
- software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to
- continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find
- that you are using RATE MASTER and continue to use RATE MASTER after a
- reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $29.95 to
- MASTERWARE. The $29.95 registration fee will license one copy for use on any
- one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book.
- An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may
- be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no
- possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another.
- Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time.
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- Commercial users of RATE MASTER must register and pay for their copies of
- RATE MASTER within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn.
- Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting MASTERWARE.
-
- You are encouraged to pass a copy of RATE MASTER along to your friends for
- evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that
- they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest
- version of the RATE MASTER system.
-
- Thank you, John G. Kacmarcik, Jr. - MASTERWARE
- 2442 Tilghman Street
- Allentown, PA 18104
- (215)437-9668