🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <sW3pH2y00XcQzXk0PT@andrew.cmu.edu>, rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> This goes for demo versions of commercial software, too. Agreed that
> distributing 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...

This assumes, of course that dealers within a reasonable travelling
range have anything interesting to demonstrate.  Or can actually demo
anything that they do have...no smiley.  One local dealer can't even 
seem to keep a Mac +/SE/II running for longer than a day or so.

	seh