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Re: [PL DISCUSSION] Is ePrompter Freeware?
de Susan Bugher 01/15/2007 09:33
Ron May wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:17:57 -0500, Susan Bugher <sebugher@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>That's something else you just can't seem to get. Some Liteware programs
>>were TEMPORARILY tagged "Trialware?" (NOTE THE QUESTION MARK) and I
>>posted a request for more information about their behavior -> did SOME
>>of the features expire? I think I've explained that to you at least 4
>>times now.
>
>
> But some of those programs (e.g., NoteTabLight) DO have some of the
> "Pro" features expire. Your position at the time you made the list
> was:
>
>
>>NOTE: If the Trialware definition includes apps that have SOME feature
>>that expire these apps will be ineligible for PL2007.
>
>
> And then you listed the apps, some of which didn't didn't gain enough
> votes to make PL2007, but the remaining ones I listed in this thread
> did. YOU determined what was put on that list on your own. Further,
> you rejected several alternate proposals I made for determining which
> liteware apps may be trialware.
>
> The current glossary says:
>
> "Trialware: software which stops working after a period of time or
> number of uses (including software that can be reactivated without
> payment and software that has some trial features that stop working)."
> So the definition DOES say "software that has some trial features that
> stop working" yet you decided to reverse your earlier position with
> respect to the apps you listed. I'm glad you did, of course, but I
> don't see what's wrong with saying, "Y'know, maybe I did go just a tad
> overboard initially, and maybe I should have been more open to
> suggestion."
>
> I had hoped for that kind of openness to suggestion on this issue, but
> it was not to be.
>
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