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CrippleWare

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From: Richard Siegel
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 18:34
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Personally, I think that "CrippleWare", that is, software that intentionally
has features disabled or rude messages that repeatedly are displayed, with
instructions to send money in order to get the features working/remove
the message, is the lowest form of nastiness.

I figure the following: If I release a piece of shareware, people are either
going to like it enough to send me some money, or they aren't! No amount
of irritation by putting in messages, disabling features, etc, is going
to change that.

Besides, it's a real pain to have to maintain two versions of the program;
one crippled, one not.

This goes for demo versions of commercial software, too. Agreed that distributi
demos is a good way to get exposed, but then again, anyone who's really interested is going to go to the dealer and look at it, anyway...

		--Rich

Aw hell, what do I know.
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From: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel)
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Subject: CrippleWare
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Date: 9 Feb 88 18:34:42 GMT
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