Article:		Top 12 Ways to Degunk Your PC
Subject:		Whoa Nelly! Beware of tip 6!
Date:		2004-05-26 17:38:07
From:		docsavagemob
Response to: Whoa Nelly! Beware of tip 6!
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.

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• Whoa Nelly! Beware of tip 6!
  2004-05-27 02:56:18  Dan1 [Reply | View]
  
  
  The above author "docsavagemob" confuses shareware and donationware. He described the way donationware works.
  
  Shareware means a limited program version - not fully featured. It may have a splash window on start, time- or use- limits or some features disabled in unregistered version.
  
  I've downloaded RFA and run. Yes, it found many errors. About 300. And it fixes only 10-13 at a time. BUT THIS WORKS. I've spend about an hour to reduce the number of errors to 20. If you have a lot of time you can use this program not paying to the developer. But if you set much your time you will probably win paying $21 to keep your system clean and support future versions.