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.

What turns me off?

[Anonymous Coward]

A lack of hot, naked, lesbian love between Anna Nicole Smith and Neve Campbell. Put some of that in your product and I'm all over it!

you want my e-mail address? never.

[Anonymous Coward]

I refuse to give out my email address for evaluation crapware. You can always find a better solution in the free open source world anyhow.

Re:you want my e-mail address? never.

[Anonymous Coward]

I refuse to give out my email address for evaluation crapware. You can always find a better solution in the free open source world

You haven't been using computers for very long, have you?

hello

[Anonymous Coward]

hello, my name is jesus.

good bye.

Short Attention Span

[Anonymous Coward]

(I won't lose you into any further explanations)

Re: yer mom

[Anonymous Coward]

Haw haw.

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( | ) - Hello. I explain punk rock.

( | ) - Hello, hippy! I punch you in the cunt!

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

[Inthewire]

Funny you bring it up - Joel is a fag

Re:Slashdot's moderation system is not fair

[Inthewire]

That's a dirty fucking lie. I've had -1 default posting twice, and both times worked my way out. Slowly, and I've only got 3 now, but so what?

Re:community outreach

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux fucked 3 hard drives on me so far. I cannot find any other parallel other than each one had (at some point) Mandrake Linux installed. I partitioned using their gui-tool. This is fucking rediculous. I am not kidding either. One hard drive I had been using for years. Now, 3 days after it's first Linux install it has a head crash. FUCK YOU LINUX-COMMUNITY! YOU COCKSUCKERS!

Re:Evaluation Software

[Anonymous Coward]

/me moderates +1 insightfull

Re:Registration stinks

[Anonymous Coward]

Aha! So it's you. Please stop using my email address to get into porn and warez sites.

Thank you.

Re:community outreach

[Anonymous Coward]

What a big moron you are. Did you know that head crashes cannot be done through software? You have to actually shake that HDD really hard to get that effect. Maybe that's what you were doing. I don't want to think why...

Re:community outreach

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll save you the trouble:

All damage caused by Linux can be repaired by using Solaris/x86.

Re:Having to give an e-mail address

[Anonymous Coward]

Too late, sucker.

He's already promised to give me 25%.

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...