I use very little shareware, for a reason: the shareware vendors by and large are unwilling to extend free registration to me as a sysop for distributing their wares. It costs me money to run the BBS and to distribute their stuff, but they don't perceive the value of distribution. Therefore, I say, the hell with their stuff. Once in a while a shareware writer will agree with me, and I will use his programs if I find them of value to me.