JungleCreatures said:
Bjorn,
Thanks for the support in this discussion.
I'm not sure I was supporting you or your software.
I just wanted to clarify that crippleware not neccessarily is off-topic in
the newgroup.
Software that require some kind of monetary input is *always* off-topic.
Our intention was to address
question raised in the original post.
There's no question about that. The question is whether your post was
appropriate to a *freeware* newsgroup. I believe it was *not* appropriate.
Our trial version also does not expire,
and might also be considered crippleware.
And we can get that for free, without obligations or specific requirements
that in turn makes it non-freeware?
We derive no revenue from the MSDN license,
only exposure through our partnership with
Microsoft. Please email me directly and I'll
provide an MSDN license to
you free of charge.
There nothing wrong with promoting your own software in this group, as long
as it's freeware. Many of the posters here do so, either through blatant
plugs right into discussions, or more discreetly with a link in the sig
(like me).
But in your case, if you continue to view your software as appropriate to
this newsgroup, I expect you to provide EVERYONE that ask for it, with a
MSDN licence free of charge.
Otherwise, I suggest you refrain from suggesting non-freeware, as this is a
freeware group. It's better to leave a discussion empty, than to suggest
non-freeware.
To the OP, maybe you can e-mail JungleCreatures and get their software, now
together with a free MSDN licence.
// Bjorn A
http://www.abelli.se/software/
(only my homemade freeware there)
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