[ANN] 40tude Dialog Beta 32 available

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With this version the expiration has been removed, so this and all upcoming
version will work permanently.

From the license agreement:
LICENSE FOR PRIVATE USERS, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS
You are hereby licensed to: use this software;
make as many copies of this version of this
software and documentation as you wish; give complete
and exact copies of this version of the software and
documentation in its unmodified form via
electronic means. There is no charge for any of the
above. Copies of this version of 40tude Dialog may be
distributed without charge or further permission from
the author provided that exact copies of this
version are distributed. This software is provided as
freeware and cannot be sold. This software can not
be bundled with any commercial package or distributed
by itself without express written permission from the
author. You may not disassemble, decompose, reverse
engineer or alter any of the files in the package.

Release history and changes:
http://40tude.com/dialog/history.htm

Download:
http://40tude.com/dialog/download.htm
 
With this version the expiration has been removed, so this and all upcoming
version will work permanently.
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That makes all the people in here who doubted the author's promise about
this look pretty damn stupid! ;-)
 
Il 26/dic/2003 Sen Chao Fang ha scritto:
That makes all the people in here who doubted the author's promise about
this look pretty damn stupid! ;-)
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Don't say so! I'd rather say "cautious" :)
 
Le Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:51:58 +0100, MLC a écrit :
Il 26/dic/2003 Sen Chao Fang ha scritto:


Don't say so! I'd rather say "cautious" :)
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I have been cautious for a very long time with this newsreader and have
been waiting for a non-expiring version : so far, so good.
Thanks for this piece of news Maria.
 
With this version the expiration has been removed, so this and all upcoming
version will work permanently.
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I hope that point of contestation is now finally resolved.

Good on you, Markus, never doubted it for a minute.
 
Sen said:
That makes all the people in here who doubted the author's promise about
this look pretty damn stupid! ;-)
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Nobody can predict the future. But I am happy to see this change in
the license for the product. Now I'll check it out.
 
Sen Chao Fang said:
That makes all the people in here who doubted the author's promise about
this look pretty damn stupid! ;-)
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Not at all. Perhaps the expressions of doubt have prompted the author
to remove the expiration.

Tron Sigurdjohansson
 
Not at all. Perhaps the expressions of doubt have prompted the author
to remove the expiration.
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Could be. Or is could be that the product is getting so good, he realized
he didn't need it any more.
 
That makes all the people in here who doubted the author's promise about
this look pretty damn stupid! ;-)
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Exactly right. Now it is an even better example of excellence in
freeware newsreaders/coding. A truly outstanding newsreader AND
emailer.

Regards, John.

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Tron Sigurdjohansson, upon reaching nirvana, postulated:
Not at all. Perhaps the expressions of doubt have prompted the author
to remove the expiration.
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And that's why he's been saying that there will be a non-expiring freeware
version for a year and a half during open testing and two and a half years
of closed testing. Don't pat yourself on the shoulder all too much.
 
Exactly right. Now it is an even better example of excellence in
freeware newsreaders/coding. A truly outstanding newsreader AND
emailer.
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If it gets much better, and I'll abandon Agent.

Like Agent, there is a steep learning curve. The config is very confusing,
but the program itself is great.

Bob
 
Now it is an even better example of excellence in
freeware newsreaders/coding. A truly outstanding newsreader AND
emailer.

Regards, John.
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Seconded John. Great product.

- rgds, Chris
 
jarrod said:
And that's why he's been saying that there will be a non-expiring freeware
version for a year and a half during open testing and two and a half years
of closed testing. Don't pat yourself on the shoulder all too much.
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I personally never really doubted that Marcus would make it non
time-limited. However, the point I was trying to make and which others
seemed to have missed was that he was setting an ugly precedent for
other developers.
How would you like it if the notion caught on and you HAD to update
most of your software on a regular basis? *What a pain in the ass that
would be*.
Worse yet, the concept is one that can be easily exploited by
software authors. People provide free beta testing for a product that
in its final version comes out as payware instead of freeware as
promised. There is no law against lying like that. And I'm not talking
about Marcus, but rather other authors like the jerk that runs that
Huntersoft site for instance.
 
How would you like it if the notion caught on and you HAD to update
most of your software on a regular basis? *What a pain in the ass that
would be*.
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You're right. That reminds me of the trap that JV16 Power Tools author laid
for his "forever free" software. First, you time limit the beta releases,
then you shut down the forums, then you renege on your promise.

Bob
 
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