Let us get this straight about shareware. How many of you have every actually paid for it ? It is an open invitation to criminal acts, as soon as there is shareware, there is a cracker. Most of the Windows shareware (not all of it) that I have tried has been appalling, or so crippled as to be worthless. Let me give an illustrative example (sorry is OT). Some time ago I was looking at HTML editors for Windows. There are a lot of them. I tried maybe 7 or 8. Some were horribly maimed, one put a notice on every page that the page was created by "unlicensed sofware", for example. After going through this I found a *truly* excellent one, really remarkable. And guess what. It was totally freeware, no licenses, no shareware, no crippledom. Ok freeware is not open-source necessarily. But shareware is often someone who has knocked something noddy together and wants to get some bucks, without any responsibility for it. Open source ware, also comes with no guarantee. But an odd thing is operating here, the quality is very high most of the time. The authors tend to be proud of it, the peer disapproval is high if it doesn't work. People feel pleased to contribute to it, help others with problems with it..etc. I am not saying Opera is good or bad, I am sure it is excellent. But, I am personally not going to encourage the shareware concept in the systems I personally use. And I repeat the comment from a previous mail. The whole Beta crippled test scenario is a con. You are doing free testing for a product you will have to pay for after 30, 40 whatever days. there you go. Over and out.. Cliff