10/8/2023 0 Comments Smartftp portable![]() ![]() ![]() I think that’s a fair model, and doesn’t wind up people as much as suddenly changing the license and forcing them to choose. That DOES work and means you can use it for free if you want. ![]() The only company to do this so far was Eudora, who brought in a free-ad supported model and a Paid mode, like Livejournal. Then some marketing wonk in the company obviously freaks out, saying ‘We’re not making enough money!’ and then they change the license and as most programs force auto-updating (which is annoying, but hey you’re getting it for free, right?) and so you’re left with nothing, with all your data or bookmarks left inside the now-payment-only software and left with either coughing up, which in my case I’m loathed to do – not because it’s expensive, but I hate these sorts of techniques to ‘force’ people to pay for something the company was quite happy for you to use for free – or finding alternatives.Īnd then the said ‘pay’ software fades into obscurity – these kind of things go down badly with consumers and usually it’s the last you see of that…although I suspect the marketing wonk jumps ship beforehand to another company, and so the cycle begins again. Something I hate about commercial ‘free’ software, like FTP and Anti-virus programs when they say ‘free for uncommercial use’ – so I happily use them at home (not commercially of course) for several years, lured into a false sense of a happy-warm-fuzzy-glow towards the company. ![]()
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