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IdeaFarm (tm) Meterware; what is it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcd@ideafarm.com)
Sat Mar 30 11:18:32 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 30 Mar 1996 14:11:46 GMT
From: jcd@ideafarm.com
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IdeaFarm Operations
IdeaFarm Operations is a commercial organization of OS/2 users. The mission of
the organization is to eliminate transactions costs in the market for software
and for books by exploiting a new distribution tool, IdeaFarm (tm) Meterware
Services for OS/2. This implementation of software metering offers the
following features:
* Meterware Users purchase refills which are delivered via email
* 80% of refill revenue is paid out to meterware authors
* Includes support for pay-per-view electronic books
* Does not require a local area network
* Any OS/2 user can be an author; no formal arrangement is required
* Statistical sampling is used to estimate usage of each meterware title
* System capacity is unlimited (hundreds of millions of authors, etc.)
The first incarnation of IdeaFarm (tm) Meterware Services for OS/2 is not
without blemishes, but it works, is complete, and one or two meterware titles
are being added to the catalog each month. If you have OS/2, try it out!
http://www.ideafarm.com/ifo
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