There is a new growl version for Lion, or Mac Os x.7. Not that I really longed for it. I maintained it on my laptop, as it is just an application which demonstrated the viability of the user-community. Growl, Onyx X, Neo Office, LibreOffice, and other applications have been produced to fill in the gaps those big boys left open. Well boys? Big and often nasty fellows often. Apple seems not to be one hair better than its business-rivals, entering the legal arena time and again. Now growl.. I got an invitation today to download the newest version, with a link to the appstore. I clicked and a window opened in the iTunesstore. Ohh. Ehhh... Growl has become shareware. Okay, but boys you should announce that before people start clicking. The costs are unseemingly, the amount of money to pay to you is laughably low and yet I am annoyed by the manner and way you and apple and iTunes are erecting toll-walls. This is the way large-sized distribution monopolies did come about the last ten years. That can't be the idea, yes? It is just like with those software-makers that pester users, whose annoying advertising-policies border on malware-practices, laming you system because they are going to show you that you need their particular software. This situation has brought back the question, 'do I really need growl?' Or is it just a piece of nice cake, ice-cream or the white icing on the cake? So, I am now removing growl from my system now.
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