Bob George wrote: > > whereas with linux apps, what seems to be happening is that they are > > only offering documentation online, which means that you havta fill > > out a form, and make yourself even more subject to spam. no thanx. > > I have not had good luck with that. > > If this were even moderately true, the program would seem lifelike. As it > is, it fails the Turing test badly on this point alone. Any fool can find a > wealth of information on Linux without ever encountering a web form. And > most of it can be read with a text-only browser to boot. Another strawman Bob. I aint talking about the operating system, which may very well have lots of info on my drive. Given how long it takes to find any, I daresay it must be lot.
No, I am talking about the apps. In this case Netscape, but no doubt others have figured this out as well. The app is free, not crippleware, no beg screens for registration. But the app folks have figured out that where they can get their money is from the advertising and user data base. So, they keep the help screens on their websites, and you pay for that with cookies and other kinds of unseen costs like more spam. The beg screens of dos shareware were never nearly the problem. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
