Bob Adkins said:
MyIE2 has a very large following, and we can't all be wrong. The MyIE2
forums would explode if Blood Chien coded a nag screen into it.
But that is just the thing. He did code a nag screen into it.
He also coded into it an option to turn the nag off, as a preference. The
current release shows that the implementation is buggy. It is to be expected
that the next release will have that buginess fixed. For current release,
those dealing with the bug, the .ini solution posted by bassbag sounds good.
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Yet, the nag screen coded in there in the first place. Donation-ware is
turning out to be a weird spectrum. The way I was familiar with it in past
times, it was merely that the author was not too proud to accept donations,
and you went to their website to find out how to make a donation, when you
were inclined.
We have here MyIE2, and seems maybe trend now with a few other programmers
too, who are coding the donation requests into the interface of their
software. I am certainly not going to propose that there are not very good
arguments and motives for them to do that. OTOH, I can say, that for my own
tastes, I tend to like most freeware that is "purest." Completely free; no
please register, no please donate, anywhere in the prog at all; thoroughly
guilt-free.
Will MyIE2 still be actively developed as freeware a year from now? BloodChen
has shown that he needs money for his efforts, and does not have independent
financial resources to sustain him.
I love the program, too, Bob. However, I am deliberately and decisively
avoiding monogamous commitment with it. For instance, Slim browser, I have
much higher hopes, for a year from now, that it is one who will continue to
be actively-developed freeware. My confidence for same with MyIE2, it is
not so sturdy. :/
