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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Oldtimer
Regarding your suggestion of giving patchou a mothly salary, I can only point to a product of which I am a customer - and has been for a long time - WinZip. I paid Nico Mak his $20 a long time ago. HIS program has never intruded the way Messenger Plus did.
Because it doesn't have a sponsor because it is NOT a free program. Patchou has choosen to keep Plus! free and thus he need to have an income by other means (like a sponsor advert)...
I know WinZip is not a free program, it's shareware. I was merely pointing to a different way of getting income that seems to work very well. Patchou has chosen a different way. But there ARE more options than having to give patchou a mothly salary.
Patchou can choose any method he likes, and I can give my opinion about his choice.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Oldtimer
but the sponsor program stayed behind, since I wasn't able to fit seven fuzzy digits into a textbox that only accepted five.
sorry but the textbox always has (and always will) accepted 7 digits.... and if it was a fluke which you (out of the millions that install/uninstall it every day) had, why not simply try to repeat the process? Like Matty said, we have tested this software thru and thru, including the install/uninstall of the sponsor. And it never failed. Unless you destroyed the uninstall process by removing it yourself by using agressive methods. But a simply reinstall with the sponsor fixes that....
If millions of people had the problem you are describing then:
A) There IS something wrong with it
B) You had a case
C) There wouldn't be a Plus!
If I could be bothered, I could probably reproduce the problem. And if I could find the time, I could probably tell you what the problem is. But I really don't feel like spending any more time on this. It has already wasted enough of my time.
I can assure you that I tried a simple uninstall before I used any "agressive" methods. I tried it several times. The textbox simply beeped at the sixth character.
That you just dismiss this "fluke" as easily as that, doesn't speak well for your QA process. Personally, I'd be very interested to find such an unexpected behaviour in a program that I distributed (even if I didn't write it myself, like that sponsor program). Maybe I take "flukes" more seriously...
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: If you don't like it, then leave it. Nobody forces you to use Plus!. (just like nobody forced you to install the sponsor)
Nobody ever forces me to use ANY programs. And all things considered, I'll take your advice in this case.
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