cspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (2001-06-07 at 0312.06 -0400): > How about putting one of those little day counters in the gimp start > up? So that the user has to acknowledge how many days s/he has used the > software for free. I had to wait for that dumb little paint shop pro > program to count past 2000 once. And that "free" thing could not hold a > candle to Gimp. Very nice idea. "Evil" (add voice effect) some people would say. ;] Then have a webpage that give you the key to unlock it, but after having answered a small test (Free in Free Software means: Freedom | No money, Freeware mean: No money | Unrestricted access, and so on). That would be even more evil. GSR