[free-sklyarov] Free book terminology (was Things you can't do
with ebooks)
Xcott Craver
sacraver at EE.Princeton.EDU
Thu Aug 9 11:19:56 PDT 2001
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Robert Knop wrote:
> How about a crippleBook? That refers back to "CrippleWare," the form of
> ShareWare which had key functionality disabled until you paid the
> licensing fee. Not really the same thing, since *here* you pay the
> licensing fee just to get the crippled version.
I'd avoid any use of the word "cripple."
I think what we need is a term that communicates not only the
restrictions, but the extreme customer-equals-criminal paranoia
of the people who put them there. Use is not just being
restricted, but increasingly monitored, like the customer is
on some sort of probation.
=S
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