cunobelinus;664473 Wrote: > On 20 Oct 2011, at 13:21, Soulkeeper wrote: > > > > > Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't > read > > this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by > letter. > > Oh well. I guess I can do without. > > I've never previously attempted to use Multi Library, despite > downloading it some months ago. I tried to do so this time only as an > experiment for this thread. I can certainly do without it. That's not > the point. > > > > It was of course noble of Erland to make this plugin for free > > originally. But marketing-wise, I can't help thinking that nag-ware > > (or, well, anything, really) would have been more psychologically > > effective than the give-and-then-take-away approach. > > And would have been within the law. Perhaps, though, Erland likes the > thrill of putting himself outside it and then getting his mates to > shout "sue him"; or is happy in the the knowledge that he is behaving > in a way that the legislative bodies of the EU and its constituent > states - representative of how many million people? - have agreed is so > shabby and dishonest that it should not be allowed. > > Well, a couple of days ago, I might well have paid for future updates > for this - despite not using it - and maybe for those of a couple more > of his plug ins that I've got on the system but never or very rarely > used. I'd have been happy to do so for future updates, too, if I used > them and had been given a choice. But I'm certainly not paying for > them now. > > > > After all, software, and especially UI, is at least 50% psychology. > Too > > many developers fail to realize that. > > Too many developers can't even spell it (let alone "psychology").
Would love to see you take this to the european court of law, go for it, the majority will just sit back and listen to some music complimented by Erlands excellent plugins, but do keep us all updated with progress of your legal adventure if you decide to go for it -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
