Re: FilZip 3.06

de Mike Dee 07/01/2006 10:19

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:23:19 -0700, techultra wrote:

> FilZip it's FREEWARE. It doesn't cost you anything! You can use Filzip
> for free in private, educational, non-profit and commercial
> environments.

There will be a new licensing scheme for the next release of Filzip as
displayed under the English "News" section of the Filzip home page:

http://www.filzip.com/en/index.html

---<Filzip News>

June 12th, 2006 - Filzip's new licensing scheme Don't worry. Filzip will
stay free :), you decide! I have been thinking about this for a while, and
I decided I will try a new licensing scheme. I did not have the spare time
to work on Filzip as much as I wanted to for the last years. I have
received a lot of emails containing reqquests for new features that some
of you want to have, and most of the time I could not even answer the
emails, not to mention implementing these requests. Filzip fell behind its
competitors and bugs did not get fixed. As I do have to make money to live
off, I have to work alongside my studies of computer science, which leaves
me with few spare time, and I do have a life beside my work.

So I will try this license experiment. The next major release of Filzip
will be available under two licenses. There will be a free of charge
version as it has been so far. Additionaly, there will be a second version
of the license, that I charge you for, if decide so. Paying the fee will
be completly optional, and there will be no nagging dialogs of anything,
just a notice during install and perhaps a 'Purchase a paid license' menu
item. Also, the features of the two versions will be exactly the same. If
this experiment works out, I might offer additional support if you
purchased such a Filzip version.

I would really appreciate your comment on my plans concerning this idea.
Please mail me your opinion on this:

philipp.engel@filzip.com

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dee