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Re: A Solution to the Shareware Dilemma?

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From: Juri Munkki
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1988 14:24
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In article <8502@sunybcs.UUCP> domino@sybil.UUCP (Michael Domino) writes:
>The point of all this rehash is that it occured to me that what
>shareware developers need is a way to make payment for their pro-
>ducts just as easy and convenient as ordering from an ad or a
>catalog...a co-op of some sort that would maintain the toll-free
>line, MC and Visa accounts, so that users could just pick up their
>phone, blurt out their account number and ease their consciences
A very good idea. I had the same idea about two months ago and told
about it to Rich Siegel when he asked about shareware honesty. The only
problem is getting someone to do the work. I would probably pay all
the shareware I use once a year with a single payment.

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@fingate.bitnet
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi
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From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Solution to the Shareware Dilemma?
Message-ID: <10516@santra.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 14:24:29 GMT
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Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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