-=> Quoting Anton Sparrius to Matthew Shanahan <=-

 AS> * In a message originally to Lars Friedrichs, Matthew Shanahan
 AS> writes: MS> It can be crippling when you have invoked an automatic log
 AS> off and you MS> want to break it. The two screens take a while to come
 AS> up and then MS> exit from. In the meantime, you are logged off. There
 AS> is where it is MS> crippling.


 AS> ummm...but if you were using that often, shouldn't you have registered
 AS> it??? How are the s/w authors (as folks here maybe) supposed to get
 AS> paid for their work if they cant give you a little "shove"?

What the hell do you mean "but if you were using that often"??? I
don't know what message you were reading, but as you can see from the
message you were sent, it simply states that there is a log off that
occurs. There is absolutely NOTHING saying that I used it a lot. The
observation was that it was not very encouraging for the prospective
customer to be logged off due to this `bug'.

As far as shareware goes, if the author is willing to have agents all
over the world, people should register the software as long as the
prices are reasonable. As for foreign orders, well, they can become a
little cumbersome and if the author really wants to be paid, they need
to have the appropriate outlets for people to register the programmes
in their own country. However, they shouldn't do this by making the
software a pain to use until the software is upgraded. They should do
what telix has done and that is take out some of the exotic features
or put a time limiter on the software.

TTYL,

Matthew Shanahan.
... I may not always be perfect, but I'm always me. 30 Jun 95 ...  
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