Uniquely, shareware distribution allows you the chance to try software 
before buying it. If you continue using a shareware program, you are 
under a legal obligation to register (purchase). In Coeli's case, we 
grant you the right to evaluate (try) the software freely for a period 
not to exceed thirty days, after which you must either order the product 
or remove it permanently from your system.

Above all, remember that the term shareware defines a distribution method 
rather than the nature of the software itself. The authors are accomplished 
programmers, and their programs are comparable in quality to shelfware 
products, often superior. The sole difference is their method of 
distribution.

Because shareware's marketing overheads are negligible, prices are often 
lower than those of equivalent shelfware products. Shareware offers the 
ultimate money-back guarantee: if you don't use the program, you don't 
pay for it; if you do, you are expected to bring out your cheque book or 
credit card in just the same way as you would for a more conventionally 
marketed product. All this applies to Coeli.

And now you'll no longer honestly be able to say, 'I didn't realise 
I was supposed to pay for it'.


Swimming Elk Software, 1997