John Jay Smith top posted (as usual):
If you download any program it also has a
learning curve, thus you invest time thus money.
A program having a learning curve isn't the same as being forced to
provide feedback for the off chance that you MIGHT get a license to
continue using the program.
Also since at the same time you could be downloading something else with
that same bandwith yet you chose to download the freeware it is attached to
the cost of your internet connection, and since it takes space in your hard
drive there is a cost also attached to it too......
That's an old, old argument that's been hashed to death in this group.
Bottom line is that it doesn't hold water. This group a long time ago
discussed the issue and decided that there are acceptable costs to using
freeware:
1. paying for your computer
2. paying for your internet connection
3. the learning curve.
Without those investments, you can't use the software so it's kind of
moot. On the other hand, costs involved in using a program which render
it not freeware are a totally different thing. Obviously, such costs are:
1. financial cost
2. desktop real estate (lost due to advertising)
3. time limitations
4.
By your logic, anything can be considered on topic in this group and is
okay to recommend. If that were the case, it would not be very long
before people stopped coming here because the group no longer was
functional.
Bottom line, your logic does not stand, and not everyone aggrees with your
view on what freeware is.
My logic DOES stand and yes, I'm fully aware that not everyone agrees
with my view of what freeware. People like you, who try to water down
the definition of freeware are the enemies of this group.
Choose what you want to download and stop trying to run this newsgroup as if
it belongs to you.
I'm just as free as you are to express my opinions and will continue to
behave as I always have. You are simply pissing in the wind.
You can advise, or state your opinion.. but not order....
Why don't you review my reply and see if anything in it could in the
least degree be construed to be an "order" on my part. On the other
hand, review your own offensive tone in your post.
PS. this is only an opinion not an order..
Then maybe you should use words like "please"
since you will probably ignore it and continue your ways....
Yep. The only part you got right was this last part. I just removed you
from my killfile and now I can see that was a mistake. Back in you go.
