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- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: GIFV37.ZIP View/edit/print gif/bmp/pcx/pic slide show, Garbo
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.125726.15192@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:57:26 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- -To: A.Bottonelli@it12.bull.it (Alessandro Bottonelli)
- -Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:54:32 +0200 (EET)
- -From: ts
-
- > In comp.archives.msdos.announce you write:
- >
- > >Thank you for your contribution. This upload is now available as
- > > 244517 Dec 14 03:07 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/gifutil/gifv37.zip
- >
- > >It is fair to the users to note that this is nagware. (Nothing
- > >wrong with that. Just a categorization).
- >
- > Excuse my ignorance, what's 'nagware' ?
-
- Nagware is part of the computer jargon or parlance and is modelled
- after the familiar word 'shareware'. Nagware means that the program
- (usually) has one or several screens that remind you of registering.
-
- There are several words like that. For example 'crippleware' means
- that the program is somehow limited in its functions. That, too, is
- to exhort (some say extort :-) the user into registering.
-
- Crippling and nagging in shareware programs are issues which have
- been hotly debated on the net over and over again (ad nauseum). As
- an archive site moderator I just try to categorize, and let the
- users draw their own conclusions according to their subjective
- preferences.
-
- In the case of gifv37.zip the nag is exceptionally heavy, and one
- users called aptly called it 'badgerware' in a letter to me.
-
- A general note to all users. I'll be pleased to try to answer your
- questions time allowing. But in cases of questions of general
- interest (this is such) please also consider the alternative of
- posting your welcome questions, and the views you might have on the
- announced uploads, directly to comp.arhives.msdos.d. That way the
- question has a wider audience, and the newsgroup serves its assigned
- purpose. (I'll post this reply of mine to CAM.d).
-
- > BTW, have a nice Holiday Season and a Happy 1993 !
-
- Thank you. You too!
-
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