What Turns You Off About Evaluation Software?

An Anonymous Coward asks: "I work at a mid-tier software company (which shall remain nameless, lest I draw attention to myself). Recently we have started making 30 day evaluation versions of our software available for download after prospects register. An email containing a username and password is sent to the registrant a few hours after submission. We have been surprised to find that not a few registrants don't actually go on to download the software. We make the file size and system requirements clear up front. I would guess some slashdot readers get involved in evaluations. What process do you go through? Why might you stop short of actually downloading the software?"

Comments

what turns me on is...

[AnimeFreak]

...those chicks in those X10 camera ads.

If spyware had those chicks flashing on my desktop, I'd let them take all my personal information.

But since that doesn't happen, any evaluational software with spyware in it doesn't turn me on.

Re:i can't find "joel's rule" at that URL

[Inthewire]

Funny you bring it up - Joel is a fag

For gods sake, make a newsgroup

[SurfTheWorld]

Google can search 'em! And whenever you have a problem, where do you usually go first? Google... Plus it's more community oriented. Lookit how BEA has tons of CSRs trolling the weblogic newsgroups. It's great. WebGain (TOPLink) has private newsgroups and there's NOTHING on google about toplink that's very valuable...