Useware (Austria)
In Austria , usage models based on micropayment are particularly widespread for software products that communicate with official or judicial portals . Pay-per-use models are referred to there as useware .
The billing of the fees does not work with useware models via credit card, but consistently via special company portals that bill users.
The term Useware is so widespread, especially in Austrian legal informatics , that the Federal Ministry of Justice , the Federal Chancellery , the Bar Association and the Chamber of Public Accountants use it in official documents.
Useware is currently only used in commercial software products that can be used without purchase ( license ), but with usage fees that have been defined in advance for certain uses (pay per use, hence Useware).
Example: Such a software transmits the annual accounts of tax advisors to courts. The software manufacturer charges the user one euro per use. Such usage fees are collected either via a software manufacturer's portal (debiting to the customer account) or via a third party (public online service with a payment component).
Useware was in Austria already on-screen text spread (BTX) times and took here one of the first relevant applications in the range of micropayment. In the BTX phase, UseWare models were common in all application areas of software, including games or other entertainment software. The concentration on commercial applications or those of e-government did not arise until the mid-1990s after the replacement of BTX applications by Internet applications.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcements of the Federal Ministry of Justice with explicit mention of the term Useware
- ↑ Information from the Federal Chancellery with explicit mention of the term Useware ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
