On 9 March 2011 11:13, Ryan Sears <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, in order for it to qualify as 'free' it needs to be just that. > > Forcing someone to make a 'donation' before you give them said free > software is SELLING that software. Saying it's free is not just misleading, > it's a blatantly *not* true. > > Juan did however give me a download to test it out when I contacted him > off-list, which was nice of him, but I don't think that these announcements > should say 'free with a donation from 20$ up'. It should state that you HAVE > to pay 20$ in order to get a download. Anything else is misleading. > > Also due to the fact that this is *not* open-source I did not try it out. > Just too many red flags for me. > > > I agree with Ryan here, too many red flags... Essentially this $20 "donation" is paying for a windows only gui as most of the functionality that is being advertised to encourage people to download and pay the donation is provided by actual open-source products...
Do you know what would be really good... not using FD to advertise and drum up donations for your product...
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