Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 17:06:42 10/31/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 11:12:39, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Dear Michael: >Maybe this issue is not so black and white as you put it. And besides there is >another side of he problem. True: most freeware stuff is, if not bad, very >simple and sometimes unuseful. But then, please take a look at commercial >software and tell me if 100% of it is superior, good quality, etc. It is not! >There is a LOT OF CRAP also in commercial software side. I know it very well as >much as not having money problems and being a man prone to temptation, I >purchase a lot in the Internet. And you know what? Most things are crap. Pretty >envelopes, pretty marketing tactics, many promises,etc, but mostly few real >things to get. And besides we have he effect of what you get and what you wanted >to get, normally very differents things. In the realm of sotware this dilusion >is the greatest. Just look at our site and see how many complains produces at >each step every new commercial chess program. >PIM? Tere was a time I downloaded almost every PIM offered, freeware or >commercial, and still I do not use none. Why? Because I am expecting something >none of them can give to me. >But returning to your point, I can swear to you that the percetage of crappy >stuff from commercial origen is very very high, not less than that you can get >in the freeware arena. In fact, is shameful. Installation problems, bugs, >desconfiguration of your Config.sys files, flat design, less features than >announced, etc, etc. It is life, Michael: in nature as in society, almost 90% of >everything is doomed to failure. >Fernando I take your point. But there maybe some useful freeware on the market. But most of it is crap. As for free stuff all over the internet, I think in General from programs that I would actually use, freeware is very little. As for free stuff running the internet, which bob pointed out. Well I really do not care about that software, cause apart from surfing the net with it, I cannot do much else, and this would only take up 0.01% of what is good freeware. Freeware chess from my use is crap. Maybe the strength is okay, but the usage very pretty pathetic. That is even though most can still beat me. Given a choice there is not many commercial programs in chess that I would put down in favour of a freeware program. I do not use freeware chess programs anymore. Apart from Chess-it, which is tiny and I can hide on my work computer, it has a nice little interface and very small program.
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