On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:47, zampino wrote: > > Wow, I've never seen a more negative comment on shareware. In fact, I've > rarely seen anyone criticize shareware... it was the shareware authors who > made it possible for me to switch to OSX 10.0, as they quickly provided > support for things like the application menu, windowshade, tinkertool's > options... Most of these pieces of software were $15 or less, far less than > if a well-known developer had introduced them. > > Egomaniacs? I'd say "useful opportunists" at worst, but I for one have > payed for each of the shareware titles I use HAPPILY. How can there ever be > too much inexpensive software?... > > philz
Sorry. For most of the shareware programs I've seen for the mac, I cannot really see any difference between shareware and software demos. I'll refer to them as annoyware in the rest of my flames :) It's sad to come from a free software environment and find that the things you rely on come as dozens of small programs you don't know the reliability of for $20 each. Now if there were a console mode I could use that instead of a virtual desktop for programming. The terminal is still painfully slow, or maybe it doesn't support people that write faster than the refresh rate :) -- Ask Solem Hoel [+4722808579 | +4797962181] ABC Startsiden AS [ http://www.startsiden.no]
