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                  THE SHAREWARE USERS TUTORIAL  (c) 1990-1992
                        Seattle Scientific Photography
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       Within any chapter or section of this tutorial, press F1 key for 
       help screen. You can control colors, turn sound on/off, search 
       through the tutorial for a title or phrase, print entire chapters 
       on your printer and more! Press F1 for Help. A reminder line 
       appears at the BOTTOM of the screen to assist you. 

       You may read or print a registration/order form on your printer 
       from the main menu. If you lack a printer or have difficulties 
       printing the order form, use a plain sheet of paper and include 
       your name, address and description similar to the order form you
       can view on the screen. Technical questions, comment or 
       suggestion? Jot a note and include with your order. 

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          SHAREWARE, PUBLIC DOMAIN, FREEWARE AND COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
                     
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       SHAREWARE is software which has been prepared by a variety of
       individuals and companies. The concept governing shareware is 
       that you "try before you buy." Shareware is above all a unique
       marketing experiment which operates on the "honor system."

       In practice, shareware is frequently of the same quality as 
       commercial software. However, it uses a different, and somewhat 
       less expensive method of marketing which involves letting 
       others freely copy, use and distribute the shareware. What you 
       receive from your friend at work, computer club, commercial 
       shareware disk distributor or BBS modem system is a "disk 
       evaluation copy" which you may use, copy and above all TRY. 
       
       Documentation and instructions for program use are usually 
       contained within special text files on the same disk as the 
       program and sometimes take a little detective work to locate.
       Formal printed documentation and instruction books may also
       be available from the author.
       
       If you like what you find and use the program consistently -
       many shareware authors suggest 30 days, but this is not a 
       firm rule - then you are expected to register the shareware 
       by submitting a fee usually by mail to the author which 
       frequently brings additional benefits sent back to you by 
       the author of the shareware. Above all, it is legal to copy, 
       distribute and USE shareware. What do you do if you don't care
       for the software? No need to return it or pay further for it.
       Erase the disk or give it to a friend. Only you are keeping
       track - an honor system in the truest sense. Try before you
       buy and affordable prices are the hallmark of shareware!

       Computers improve the world, shareware improves computers 
       and registration is what improves and motivates shareware 
       programmers who are called "authors" in the trade. 
       
       If you do not submit a registration fee AT LEAST send a
       postcard with your thoughts on why improvement is needed.
       You just might NEED and USE the revised version which is
       produced due to your funding or critique. Either way, feedback
       is essential to the shareware process!
       
       The registration fee requested by the author is a matter of good 
       conscience since shareware registration fees are paid by
       users directly to the author "on the honor system." Paying 
       an honest registration fee frequently means you will receive 
       additional disks for the program or further instruction 
       documents, bonus items or other "inducements" directly from the 
       author. 
       
       Registration is more than this though: on a human scale your 
       registration fee is supporting a small company or individual 
       who shows you how to use and understand a computer. A programmer 
       is a craftsman whose tools are logic and considerable creativity. 
       Your registration check is a special bond which allows this 
       quiet "honor system" of submitting your registration fee 
       for a programming job well done to motivate creative programmers 
       to produce some rather astonishing products! 
       
       The best way to summarize is this: you are not registering a 
       product, you are helping a person or small company do something 
       which improves how man uses the computer, most important tool of 
       this century. Paying a registration fee to the author of the 
       program rewards technical craftsmanship for providing creative 
       computer solutions at unbelievably low cost. Good programmers are 
       rare creatures - a small registration check goes a long way and 
       means a lot to a small shareware author!               

       PUBLIC DOMAIN software is a second type of computer software 
       which is NOT copyrighted and has no other legal restrictions
       as to use by the general public. The author may or may not
       be identified. Most public domain programs result from the
       efforts of a programmer who designs a small piece of software 
       for personal use. The author may not decide to invest 
       additional time in developing and marketing the software due to 
       lack of market knowledge or lack time and funds to effectively 
       develop it into a larger commercial or shareware package.
       For these and other reasons, the author does not copyright the
       software and allows it to be copied, used or even incorporated 
       into other software packages since it is part of the public 
       domain available for the common good.

       FREEWARE is related to BUT NOT the same as public domain 
       software. Freeware requires no registration fee or reimbursement 
       for use by the public but the copyright is RETAINED BY THE 
       AUTHOR who notes a copyright restriction within the body or
       documentation of the software. A reason for this subtle
       difference is that the author may, at a future date, wish to
       reclaim all or part of the software or modify and reissue
       the software as shareware or commercial software. The copyright 
       continues the unique claim of the author to the product.

       COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE is computer software provided by a company 
       or individual which is generally marketed via retail, wholesale 
       or other commercial means but does not use or promote a 
       registration fee concept, a "try before you buy" concept, and
       does not use or promote sharing copies of the program among 
       individuals or other enterprises. The user is expected to purchase 
       the right to use the package BEFORE being allowed to use the 
       software extensively.

       Note that either purchase or registration of any software 
       package does not mean you own the package, merely THE RIGHT AND 
       LICENSE TO USE IT. The author or company which produced it owns 
       the software programming code and is granting you a LICENSE to use 
       it in exchange for a fee or other compensation. In essence you 
       do not buy or own software, you merely license its use. The 
       author owns it.
       
       

