mark@urz.unibas.ch (01/08/91)
Dear NETworkers (especially dear shareware authors), shareware programs often write messages like this: "...if you like this program, please send 23.45 dollars to this and this address." Sometimes they say more: "...if you send this money, you will be registered, and will get new versions. If you send 34.56 dollars, you will get the user manual of this program." We have several educational programs (like TEDDY) and want to distribute their DEMO versions as shareware. We would like to include messages like quouted in the beginning, but first we want to know that - has somebody any experience, that anyone would send money after reading messages like this? - What are the legal consequences of this thing? How is it with different currencies? How must one pay tax after it? etc. G. Mark Institut fur Physik, Universitat Basel Klingelbergstrasse 82., Ch-4056 Basel, Schweiz FAX: 00 41 61 321-14-40 Tel: 00 41 61 293773 E-mail: mark@phys.unibas.ch