Folks, Just following up on this old thread, we now have some new insights into FPS, as recently posted in the forum:
On Sunday 25 October 2009 04:39:48 pm I wrote: > ...to think of it from an advertising point of view: What does every company > in the world do to advertise their product? Emphasize how, and why their > product is better than their competitor's. In this light, the fact that > we're only being offered vague statements should be indicative enough. > Adding to that, the vague description of the ProFlightSim launcher in one > of the “reviews” at Mr George Cayley's website > (http://www.flightprosim.net) suggest that their advanced > installer/launcher is in fact nothing more than Fred's fgrun. http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6500 Thanks to some clever detective work, we managed to download a copy of the "enhanced FPS launcher, and obtain an up-close-and-personal look at their enhancements. Please have a look at the screen by screen comparison of fgfs fgrun vs. fps fgrun. Funnily enough, the most significant change appears consist of the fact that the address to report bugs, now consists of a URL to an online book-on-tape store that is actually not selling anything. Seems like a nice Pythonesque twist... :-) > Personally, I think that we have a moral obligation to > do what is in our power to prevent that. In particular because people > falling for these kinds of traps may not necessarily be the ones with the > highest socio-economic status, and therefore not the ones who have a lot of > money to spare. > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2943&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=11 Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
