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freeware and open source...
Posted By: maybemd2b In Response To: Yes and no.... (Dane Morgan)
Date: Wednesday, 17 August 2005, at 8:15 a.m.
There are lots of reasons to put out good pieces of freeware
-- goodwill
-- brand it and have some viral marketing
-- use it as a trojan horse (in the Helen of Troy sense) to sneak spyware in
-- definitely to temp you to buy the more fully featured version.I was just thinking Adobe should give their software away--very limited versions--but you could SEE the other featurs. So, if you wanted to pay for that feature, you call up Adobe and get that feature activated. Then they'd know what people are really interested in. And some of us poor folk can have access to the parts of the program we want without having to pay for all those feaatures we don't care about.
As the previous poster said--yes, some is good and some is not too good. Some can be dangerous. I downloaded a copy of Ad-aware off of cnet and promptly got two java class byte exploit viruses.
But remember, too, there is a whole huge bunch of free code over at sourceforge.net--the home of far too many opensource projects to count. There you have the advantage of not only free code, but you have a good idea what state the project is in, because all the project documentation is (well, should be) there (and if it isn't, even that is telling...)
Good luck to you!
zapseo
> Sorry, couldn't resist, but really the answer is yes, and no... There are
> simply too many variables in your equation. A lot of pros use things like
> say... GoodKeywords IN ADDITION to more sophisticated and less
> "free" tools, and there are some things like WordPress where
> many very experienced people will insist that no bought program can match,
> let alone beat the preformance ot that software.> Link Manager Assistant is awesome software. I prefer Reciprocal manager,
> but that in no way should imply that you could not run a great site that
> accopmlishes whatever it's goals might be with LMA or any of a dozen
> others.> My absolute favorite referal log is a gpl PHP class, but I paid fo the
> full version of Copernic to get the extra features and have never been
> disapointed with the choice.> I would never pay for a I can't imaging paying for a browser unless
> FireFox started charging. I've been dissapointed by more than one
> purchased "professional" CMS, but drupal.org, a gpl one, simply
> rocks. same thing with osCommerce.> so in the end, I guess my answer would be... It depends.
depends.
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