Lets be reasonable here...

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John Jay Smith

On this group everyone praises FOXIT pdf reader....I do too
Yet it is adware... Yep...! Proof?

see the screenshot http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9397/foxit5sj.jpg

Pressing this small banner it leads us to this page
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_sdk.php
where it says:
"Licensing Cost: We provide flexible licensing options, including royalty
based and royalty free licensing. The cost of licensing is determined by
restrictions you choose to apply to the licensing.

If you are interested in licensing Foxit Reader SDK, please click here to
fill out an online survey and our sales person will get back to you with a
quote very soon. "

This is my reply to everyone who wants to stick to the rules like a clam
with no flexibility at all. I like foxit and
I suggest it to anyone as a "free" product.

AND I QUOTE, from a post by the "The Seabat"

"No, by condoning the use of anything other than freeware you create a
crack in the foundation. You say it is only one little nag screen and
you don't mind clicking to close it. The next one will say, aw, it's
only TWO little nag screens and they don't mind closing them. Etc."

So why doesn't everyone complain to all the posters who keep talking about
Foxit?

Because its a darn good program and we are a little flexible to get such a
nice program for free aren't we?
Foxit is just an example I had handy.... I could probably find more programs
we all post as "free"
Yet if you really want to do what Seabat and Corliss wants us to do we have
to discard them.

I say follow the rules.. but dont be enslaved by them!
 
An addition... Some might run to say : Yes but fox it gives you an option to
turn off the
advertisment... View>Advertisment

It closes, but once you run foxit again, there is the banner again!

I call that irritating and "nagging" wouldnt you? Yet foxit is so good and
fast a
reader that it deserves to be in this newsgroup... since you dont pay for
it.
 
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On this group everyone praises FOXIT pdf reader....I do too
Yet it is adware... Yep...! Proof?

see the screenshot http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9397/foxit5sj.jpg

Pressing this small banner it leads us to this page
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_sdk.php
where it says:
"Licensing Cost: [etc]
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I'm not clear about this.

How does the Foxit button differ from the link usually found in an
appliactions Help | About window which takes you to the author's site
where he may have other applications which are sold for money?

That sort of Help > About link can be found in freeware.
 
On this group everyone praises FOXIT pdf reader....I do too
Yet it is adware... Yep...! Proof?

see the screenshot http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9397/foxit5sj.jpg
Click to expand...

Without having seen product etc.... But if the banner?
isn't obtrusive... I think it is 100% fair if a developer
has "fixed links" / menu items to other of his products.

At least it is IMHO not in the same category as showing ads using
a service (that may or may not spy on you) for 3rd party products.



best regards
Thomas Schulz
http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/launcher/
 
I'm not clear about this.

How does the Foxit button differ from the link usually found in an
appliactions Help | About window which takes you to the author's site
where he may have other applications which are sold for money?

That sort of Help > About link can be found in freeware.
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ohhhhhh......now there's a gotchya.....;-0
 
I don't know what version/build you're running, but mine (v1.3 build
1130) does not show the ad once it is unchecked in the menu. Been
running it forever and I've never seen a nag at all! I would advise
that you reinstall it, with maybe a newer version? But then you
wouldn't have any thing to nag about. No pun intended.
 
Strange....
I am using version 1.3 build 1522...
but I never installed this.. I am using the standalone app, and I dont run
it from a shortcut,
I just double click on PDFs and it opens...

can you tell me if you have used an install version or if you start it from
a shortcut?

Thanks
 
The said:
I don't know what version/build you're running, but mine (v1.3 build
1130) does not show the ad once it is unchecked in the menu. Been
running it forever and I've never seen a nag at all! I would advise
that you reinstall it, with maybe a newer version? But then you
wouldn't have any thing to nag about. No pun intended.
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The nag is in the top right on the toolbar. It comes back for me
regardless of the checkmark also.
 
I downloaded the latest (1.3 build 1621) and still the same thing.. and this
was not only on this computer I have seen it on another also..

I downloaded the zip that has the standalone inside....
 
John Jay Smith - 29.04.2006 17:06 :
An addition...
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fine, but why unnecessarely fullquote your own, some few minutes prior
preposted, again? How to quote seems not to be of one of your strength?
 
John Jay Smith said:
An addition... Some might run to say : Yes but fox it gives you an
option to turn off the
advertisment... View>Advertisment

It closes, but once you run foxit again, there is the banner again!
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Do you mean that tiny pink thing; I can honestly say I'd never noticed it
till you mentioned it.

Are you picky, or what??

Elsewhere I've suggested a firewall, where the free version is tucked below
all the payware, and is in small print.

It also puts an icon with it's initial in the system tray.

Would you prefer to have _that_ banished from freeware.

Or have you got so much money you like to pay over the odds for goods, and
proudly carry "Harrods" (or American equivalent), advertising home on your
carrier bag.

Nike trainers, Levi jeans, Gucci handbags....., charge way extra for giving
you the privilege of telling the world you've more money than sense,

What's the point of all this - I dunno, except relax, man, and stop wasting
out time, none of us has enough of that.

Except some usenet users ;)

mike
 
mike said:
Do you mean that tiny pink thing; I can honestly say I'd never noticed it
till you mentioned it.

Are you picky, or what??

Elsewhere I've suggested a firewall, where the free version is tucked below
all the payware, and is in small print.

It also puts an icon with it's initial in the system tray.

Would you prefer to have _that_ banished from freeware.

Or have you got so much money you like to pay over the odds for goods, and
proudly carry "Harrods" (or American equivalent), advertising home on your
carrier bag.

Nike trainers, Levi jeans, Gucci handbags....., charge way extra for giving
you the privilege of telling the world you've more money than sense,

What's the point of all this - I dunno, except relax, man, and stop wasting
out time, none of us has enough of that.

Except some usenet users ;)

mike
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Last two lines are great.

Lou
I eat my peas with honey.
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny.
But it keeps them on my knife.
 
Of course I dont mind about the banner... I posted this as a reply to what
this poster said
here:

AND I QUOTE, from a post by the "The Seabat"

"No, by condoning the use of anything other than freeware you create a
crack in the foundation. You say it is only one little nag screen and
you don't mind clicking to close it. The next one will say, aw, it's
only TWO little nag screens and they don't mind closing them. Etc."

now do you understand???
 
Sorry for the bad terminology, but mine is the standalone app, also.
No shortcut, just to appear when clicking on a PDF file. No ad! Ever,
except for the first time I ran it before unchecking the little box.
 
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