Yes, it was a FYI... It's no different to buying a book from Amazon and getting suggestions... the video on the OpenCandy website is self-explanatory. They make a recommendation during the install process, and the user can skip the recommendation. If the software in the OpenCandy catalogue is high quality and recommendations are relevant, it could work quite well.
I certainly feel more comfortable with it than something like TrialPay, where a customer who wants to purchase software ends up buying flowers and signing up for a gym... --Simon On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Gary L. Wade <[email protected]>wrote: > > > DUDE! BREATHE! > > I may not like ads either, but this is just an FYI posting, not necessarily > a recommendation or a push to use it. If you don't like it, don't use it. > I probably wouldn't use it either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to throw > away a perfectly good (and maybe free) application just because an ad > showed > up in my installer. Occasionally, a good ad will pique my interest, so I > would not consider such an ad as evil. > > By the way, if you've used software for any length of time, you'll notice > that lots of big-named products have ad-like screens (albeit for their own > products) in their installers, and people aren't throwing away those > products. > > If an installer is going to take a long time to do something, it's > perfectly > acceptable to keep the user occupied with something more than a progress > bar > or spinning cursor. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
