CompuServe Messages

Rick, I agree with a lot of ASP's philosophy on ShareWare. It is agravating to spend the time downloading a program only to find that SAVE or some other important function has been disabled. When I find out a program has been badly crippled it usually is deleted immediately with no remorse. But I do not consider programs that omit features vs the registered versions as being crippled. For example, the demo version of Whap! is a fully functional program with the most important features enabled. If you like the demo, then you can get a few "Extra" features plus get rid of the guilt screens, which I admit were annoying but tolerable. All of the programs I have written and released have been freeware. But I'm in the process of writing my first ShareWare program. The program will be fully functional as it stands, with the appropriate documentation. But if you send in the ShareWare fee, then you will get extra modules along with the main program which adds more features. I'm not sure if this is against ASP's philosophy, but I believe it is a fair way to handle ShareWare plus get some return on your programming effort. John (in beautiful downtown Walla Walla) – via Whap!