Registration for NON-profit organizations


xChaos software has already tried many ways to make Arachne easily available to schools, hospitals, and non-profit organizations in general. We believe that the importance of the Internet can be compared to the importance of Gutenberg's invention of book printing, and that the Internet should be accessible to everyone. Especially schools and hospitals in the not-so-rich parts of the world can't afford to upgrade their PCs every year, so they may appreciate that the World Wide Web will now be accessible from their Local Area Networks.

Arachne can be legally used for non-commercial use as it is distributed - with no registration key. If you want a registration key, you have to buy it - because generation of keys for non-profit organizations can't be done automaticaly, and we have to spend our time and workforce reading the sales mailbox, paying telecommunication bills, etc.

The price of an Arachne non-commercial registration is:

30 USD for every 100 installations of Arachne

This is because transferring less then 30 USD is quite inefficient and only banks would profit from it. However, the cost of 30 US cents per single installation should be acceptable for almost any organization which can afford to own a PC and pay telecomunication bills.

This doesn't mean that non-profit organizations MUST pay for Arachne - it only means, that we won't send them free registration keys any longer.


How to pay a registration fee