UNIX Computer Associates' "Simply Money" Doom Oracle's "Personal Oracle 7" [see WSJ 01/04/95 B1] McAffee Associates [mentioned in WSJ 01/04/95 B1] all shareware GNU and other GPL software [WSJ 09/14/95 B1]: General Magic Netscape (Web browsers) Microsoft (Money -- against Quicken) Adobe (Acrobat reader, but also PostScript) Qualcomm (Eudora e-mail) Sun (Hot Java) ====================================================================== * free fully functional product * relying on the customer's word ONLY for future payment * no way to veryfy compliance * BUT: a pirating (unregistered) customer can't get upgrades * making money by setting standards