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Just one author's experience:

I tend to not cripple my stuff for a couple of reasons: (1) I don't need
my shareware fees to survive, and (2) it generates more ill will than it's
worth.  Type! (my pre-2.0 keyboard driver) only provides a gentle reminder
for a few seconds before normal use begins, and *that* it only does some
of the time. My own personal philosophy.

|Not paying for shareware is not larceny. The cost of using that shareware is 
|the cost of time in dealing with the crippling and pop-up reminders. That's 
|the consumers choice. That's the peril of shareware.

My attorney disagrees.  Under most s/w license agreements (and use of the
program in question implies agreement to terms of the program's license),
you have a certain period to try the program out before you are obligated
to pay the registration fee.  My trusting you to not steal doesn't mean
that you're not stealing.

Granted, that's the "peril" of shareware. It's also its strength.  I get
enough support in terms of fees to encourage me to provide what many
unscrupulous people view as a free service.

I happen to believe in carrots, not sticks.  In shareware, that is.  I'm a
little tougher in my "day job" :-).

Dan Parvaz