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Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go?
Talahamut asks: "The other day, I was planning on recording a radio show by running my stereo's output into my PC. Oooh, that sucks - WinXP's Sound Recorder limits you to 60 sec. recordings. Oh well, I'll just go online and grab a little WAV recorder. 30 minutes later, I'm frustrated because all I find is crippleware (time-limited, of course...) that records every format under the sun from any sound stream imaginable. What happened to the small home-brewed Windows utilities that used to be so easy to find online years ago? All the freeware sites I checked had nothing but commercial crippleware. Is there no place to find simple programs like that anymore?"
All the freelance programers have gone to linux. Maybe if more programmers spent time creating things for windows, they might find that they like it better than linux.
There is no disappearing of the true Dhamma until a fals Dhamma arises in the world.
When the false Dhamma arises, he makes the true Dhamma to disappear.
Samyutta-Nikaya II, 224
Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
Years ago my friend who made a freeware called 'GameHack'(sort of, I forgot) was approached by a company for acquiring its source code with good offers. Then the company offers to commercialize his product and pay him royalty after he rejected the first offer. They didn't make the deal in the end.
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I think that's how the things go: you make good freeware and someone will support you to commercialize it if you don't do it yourself. We've seen a couple of such cases in OSS community. Developers are simply human who need to feed their kids and pay their mortage.
P.S. Oh btw, the reason my friend declined their offers is that he lost the source code in a harddrive failure and he's too embarrass to admit it.
So become part of the growing Linux community, install linux today, because this is where the cool windows programmers have gone!
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Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I'm so sick of uninformed people bashing Microsoft with inaccurate information!
I mean, really, there are TONS of ways to CORRECTLY bash them! Check your facts!
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Maybe MS programmers will start participating with the community and answering questions on the developers newsgroups.
Hold up...did the parent just imply that Linux users were helpful and would answer questions?!?
Hah, it's a joke! I'm kidding!
Sorta!
not everyone has discovered google yet...
I personally think all search engines should have as the first hit:
Results:
1) Seach for this on Google, Dumbass Acuracy - 100%nt