Freeware and/or Paid Software Model

[Dan]

I wanted to get people's feedback on which model they prefer and why do they
prefer the model. I prefer actually paying for software then using too much
software that is supported by ads especially because of the problems with
adware in this day and age. Please respond with comments to this post about
if you prefer the pay for software model or the software model that is "free"
and supported by ads as well as having the chance to mess with your computer.
You can see my bias here but I would like feedback from everyone if they get
a chance. Please try and use thoughtful comments and don't just rant and
rave as I have been guilty of in the past in this newsgroup if you can avoid
it. Thank you and have a great new week.

 

[Don Phillipson]

"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C77FF8B3-ACCC-4636-B29E-D10DF72E80D3@microsoft.com...

> I wanted to get people's feedback on which model they prefer and why do
they
> prefer the model. . . .
> if you prefer the pay for software model or the software model that is
"free"
> and supported by ads as well as having the chance to mess with your
computer.

Better repost saying more clearly what you mean.
You are likely to find answers from people who play games
on PCs differ from those who never play games, people who
earn their living with PCs differ from those whose use is
unpaid, and so on.

E.g. for writing (a common function) most people use either
WordPerfect or MS Word although they never use most of
the features of this office software (designed for bulk production
of brochures etc.) I prefer instead a text editor with separate
formatting functions (built on emacs). The difference is
fundamental but has nothing to do with the categories of
freeware/patented software etc.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 

[thanatoid]

=?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:C77FF8B3-ACCC-4636-B29E-D10DF72E80D3@microsoft.com:

> I wanted to get people's feedback on which model they
> prefer and why do they prefer the model. I prefer actually
> paying for software then using too much software that is
> supported by ads especially because of the problems with
> adware in this day and age. Please respond with comments
> to this post about if you prefer the pay for software model
> or the software model that is "free" and supported by ads
> as well as having the chance to mess with your computer.
> You can see my bias here but I would like feedback from
> everyone if they get
> a chance. Please try and use thoughtful comments and don't
> just rant and rave as I have been guilty of in the past in
> this newsgroup if you can avoid it. Thank you and have a
> great new week.

I have a lot of freeware and some shareware which I rarely use
and I have seen MAYBE one opening screen of an upgrade offer in
a few of them. So you must be using the wrong kind of
free/shareware, the kind that also installs all sorts of
"interesting" things in your machine.

When I use something that will run indefinitely in free or share
mode ALL the time and consider it indispensable, I pay for it,
sometimes even when it's completely optional.

I have bought some software not available as share of free but
not much. There is almost always a free/share option, often much
better.
And if it's a program that costs $300 and I need to use it ONCE,
I get a crack.

Decent software companies make their software free for home non-
profit use, as it all should be.

 

[Dan]

What programs do you use and like, thanatoid. Thanks in advance for your
response. Have a great week.

 

[Dan]

Thank you for your thoughts Don and Canadians do rule and are so cool. My
brother in law James is originally from British Columbia in Canada I think
and I know it is Canada and he is an awesome guy. <I know run on sentence --
:->

 

[thanatoid]

=?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:12D2BD52-121A-4AB3-B8E4-113AB6A0ED20@microsoft.com:

> What programs do you use and like, thanatoid. Thanks in
> advance for your response. Have a great week.

I listed my "core programs" in my "t's computer is ten years
old" post. I probably have nearly a hundred other
programs/utilities which are more or less useful, if only once
every 3 years. But I am not going to list them all. That would
be just silly. If you are interested in what I think (FW*t*W) is
a good program for something, be more specific and I'd be happy
to recommend something.

 

[Dan]

Thanks, I will let you know in the future after I get my motherboard back
from ASUS because it is being repaired due to a power surge that fried the
Marvell Ethernet Port and potentially other stuff also. The CMOS battery is
also being replaced.

"thanatoid" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:12D2BD52-121A-4AB3-B8E4-113AB6A0ED20@microsoft.com:
>
> > What programs do you use and like, thanatoid. Thanks in
> > advance for your response. Have a great week.
>
> I listed my "core programs" in my "t's computer is ten years
> old" post. I probably have nearly a hundred other
> programs/utilities which are more or less useful, if only once
> every 3 years. But I am not going to list them all. That would
> be just silly. If you are interested in what I think (FW*t*W) is
> a good program for something, be more specific and I'd be happy
> to recommend something.
>
>

 

[Don Phillipson]

"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:26026DDA-17F6-454C-8C80-06DC1EED6323@microsoft.com...

> . . . after I get my motherboard back
> from ASUS because it is being repaired due to a power surge that fried the
> Marvell Ethernet Port and potentially other stuff also. The CMOS battery
is
> also being replaced.

There may be more here than Dan assumed, chiefly:
1. Replacing a CMOS battery is or ought to be no more
difficult than replacing the battery of a flashlight. Because
the (disc-shaped) CMOS battery lies parallel with the surface
of a motherboard it may in many configurations be covered
by a device card (so that the card must be removed before
the battery cover can be unlatched) but once that has been
done replacement is easy.
2. In order to restore a Win98 PC, this user prefers to pay
for factory repair of a MB rather than buy whatever is in
the stores (presumably only MBs designed for XP or Vista.)
Where I live, stores that handle upgrades usually sell
"obsolete" Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 PCs for $200 or less,
as at http://www.fedacom.com/MainPage/MainPage.htm

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 

[Dan]

Don, this motherboard recently sold on Ebay for over $200 and a second one
later on sold for well over $100 and so I am very happy with my decision.
Thanks for your input, anyway.

 

[Dan]

Please do not take offense Don Phillipson from Canada but do you build your
own computers and having help is allowed. My friend Raymond from Tucson,
Arizona helped me to upgrade my Falcon Northwest Mach 5 computer with a new
motherboard from ASUS, 2 hard drives from Western Digital, a new Intel 2.4
Ghz. CPU, etc. In addition, I now have my friend Jeff in Albuquerque, New
Mexico who will help me with the upgrading of my current machine which has 98
Second Edition and XP Professional. The biggest mistake that I recently made
was to install VPN without understanding what it does. I will now stay away
from it because apparently Cisco Networks VPN (Virtual Private Networking)
had some vulnerabilities and it seems to be only as strong as the weakest
link in the computer network of APS and so I will take Chris Quirke, MVP
advice and unistall it ASAP and realize that was what hurt my computer so
much, allowed someone to hack the system and made it so Windows 98 Second
Edition and XP Professional were confused. I also need this newsgroups help
to fully understand BING and what it does. Perhaps, Gary S. Terhune, MVP,
Chris Quirke, MVP and/or PCR could email me about it and have a good indepth
discussion about BING. Thanks in advance for your help and support. Please
see the following links to understand more in my discussion with Chris
Quirke, MVP on this area. (Note: I am not responsible if these links somehow
are messed up and bring you somewhere else so please use common sense and
precautions and copy and paste into a new tab or link and temporarily set
Internet Explorer settings to a strong security custom setting if you are
concerned about the web links but still want to see them)

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11573761&postID=3065010928190918746

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=8EE44DDB-6550-4400-966D-9827B1A109B8

http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/

http://cquirke.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/my-10-first-linux-toe-stubbers/#comments

http://cquirke.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/hello-world/#comments

http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/dod.mspx

http://secunia.com/product/14068/?task=advisories

http://www.us-cert.gov/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

and below the video on how important male elementary school teachers are to
our children and how few there are in America:


http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&bra...s:ns:MSNVideo_Top_Cat:ps:10:sd:-1:ind:1:ff:8A

Dan Weiser
currently APS educational assistant
plan to be 3rd to 5th grade elementary school teacher
no desire to be stuck behind an office desk all day

In addition, I don't know if Canada is lacking male elementary school
teachers but according to statistics the male elementary school teacher is at
a 40 year low in the U.S.A. and children need good male role models. I am
honored to have been chosen for this profession. Please be more careful with
your replies in the future and hopefully this does not dampen our on-line
relationship. BTW, my brother-in-law James is a Canadian so I highly honor
and respect our neighbor to the North and I hope that you will more highly
respect the U.S.A. in the future. Have a good week if you can manage it.

BTW, I am done with lying and I greatly apologize for lying in the past and
I will try and be more truthful in the future. I realize I will fall back
into lying again but I must restore the TRUST in this newsgroup and I am
willing to do what it takes to restore that trust especially with the cool,
awesome and caring Gary S. Terhune who I see as my teacher and myself as his
student who does stupid and terrible things sometimes with selfish ambition
and thoughts only for myself and not truly caring for my neighbor and loving
the higher power with my full being. I must try and pray for my enemies and
help thus that I can but I now realize I must first help myself and get my
life in order which is slowly but surely happening and I am now longer mad,
depressed and cynical because the thyroid hormone that I am taking is now
adjusted to the proper dose and I just need to have my blood levels
especially thyroid hormone checked every three months. I am also glad to be
on paid leave and staying with my parents in Santa Fe, NM for a while where I
am safe. My rental is currently in Albuquerque and I moved from Tucson,
Arizona in 2006 and it was because of my mom, Toni and her faitfulness that
she understood that I needed to get away from the terrible summer heat of
Tucson and move into a New Mexico which is the Land of Enchantment and has
the truly awesome Green Chile. BTW, Don, are you convinced yet that I know a
little about computers?