Article:		Top 12 Ways to Degunk Your PC
Subject:		Whoa Nelly! Beware of tip 6!
Date:		2004-05-26 13:53:32
From:		InfiniSource
Response to: Whoa Nelly! Beware of tip 6!
It appears you have little understanding of what "shareware" is all about. It is NOT freeware. The idea is to try it and if you like it, then you buy it. The objective is NOT to furnish the world with a tool they can use to clean up Windows for free without paying for it. We run a business and we have many mouths to feed. We like to call it "registration incentive" and this is the reason RFA is the number one converting utility in the shareware market today. If we let people clean their registry for free there would be little incentive left to buy it. We have a tremendous amount of positive customer reaction as you can see here: http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/reg1aid/feedback.html ---- Joseph Burke President/CEO InfiniSource, Inc. <jburke@infinisource.com>

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• Whoa Nelly! Beware of tip 6!
  2004-05-26 17:38:07  docsavagemob [Reply | View]
  
  
  Perhaps you have forgotten the way shareware originally worked. A fully functional version of a program was made available to whomever was interested in it. If they liked it and intended to use it again they were asked to make a contribution. Sometimes an amount was suggested by the author, sometimes not. It was then up to the user to do the honorable thing.
  
  You are not providing a shareware download. You are providing a version with reduced functionality, a demo which is a very different thing. And you are assuming that I would not have paid you for your program if I planned on continuing to use it. While that wasn't true before, it is now. Maybe you should consider hiring a PR person.