On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:42:17PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:48:37 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > > > while we're here, it occured to me to switch my own driver development > > to a pseudo-shareware model. the work will be done regardless, so this > > I think that is known as giftware. > > Nice idea, but last time I looked paypal was very unfriendly to people in > europe, they take an unjustifiably large slice off the top.
There's also Amazon's "honor system". Payments of $1 to $50 US. They take a much bigger bite than Paypal, but at least they don't discriminate. ;-/ And the receiver takes the hit, AFAIKT the payer doesn't pay anything. http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/fx/help/payor-faq.html Now, when is somebody going to invent a micropayments system that works and catches on??? -- paul winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com music: http://www.reacharms.com calendars: http://www.calendargalaxy.com
