I published some shareware in 1988.
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I published some shareware in 1988. When I visited my parents last week they gave me an envelope addressed to me. It contained a postal order for the amount requested on the shareware. I've framed the postal order and hung it above my desk.
@fesshole Thirty eight years is a remarkable settle-up time.
The shareware honor system worked far more often than people remember, and the reason was that it asked instead of enforced. Plenty of us are still building on that idea.
Framing it rather than cashing it is exactly right.
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@Flawgren @fesshole the opposite actually. Developers would release software as shareware with a request in it to buy it by sending money, in the very old days by physical mail. Sometimes it was a demo version and the dev would send back a key to unlock the full functionality, sometimes it was just the full program and you could use it whether you bought it or not. The first few levels of Doom were distributed as shareware back in the day.
@neckspike @Flawgren @fesshole
Pretty sure I paid for at least a couple of things this way. LView Pro comes to mind; possibly also CoolEdit Pro.
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I published some shareware in 1988. When I visited my parents last week they gave me an envelope addressed to me. It contained a postal order for the amount requested on the shareware. I've framed the postal order and hung it above my desk.
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@fesshole if you haven't got a chequebook, postal order is the only way to pay the DVLA if you need to do so.
I used to iron paper money or get new notes so I could mail it without it feeling too much like money.
I got acknowledgments, so I know it usually got there.
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I published some shareware in 1988. When I visited my parents last week they gave me an envelope addressed to me. It contained a postal order for the amount requested on the shareware. I've framed the postal order and hung it above my desk.
For reasons (I did similar at about the same time), this makes me very happy!
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@fesshole Can someone explain this fess to me? Is it piracy?
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@fesshole Can someone explain this fess to me? Is it piracy?
Also, in case you're unfamiliar with it, a postal order (money order in the U.S.) is a way of sending money without using a bank check.
You give the clerk the money you want to send, they create the money/postal order, you mail it with your order. It was very useful if you didn't have a bank account or if you wanted to send an international order.
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@fesshole Who cares what shareware was, I'm more concerned that fessor hadn't visited his parents since the eighties.
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I published some shareware in 1988. When I visited my parents last week they gave me an envelope addressed to me. It contained a postal order for the amount requested on the shareware. I've framed the postal order and hung it above my desk.
Waouh. !!!
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I published some shareware in 1988. When I visited my parents last week they gave me an envelope addressed to me. It contained a postal order for the amount requested on the shareware. I've framed the postal order and hung it above my desk.
@fesshole Evgeny Roshal, is that you?
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@fesshole Can someone explain this fess to me? Is it piracy?
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Also, in case you're unfamiliar with it, a postal order (money order in the U.S.) is a way of sending money without using a bank check.
You give the clerk the money you want to send, they create the money/postal order, you mail it with your order. It was very useful if you didn't have a bank account or if you wanted to send an international order.
@jgamble @Flawgren @fesshole Since I work with homeless people, I see these vouchers often. The government uses them to send money to people who don’t have a bank account or whose accounts have been frozen by a debt collector. Which is most of them. Since the vouchers are pink, I call the 15th of the month “Pink Day.”
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I published some shareware in 1988. When I visited my parents last week they gave me an envelope addressed to me. It contained a postal order for the amount requested on the shareware. I've framed the postal order and hung it above my desk.
@fesshole ...And that person will go to heaven
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