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Originally posted by Demz

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Originally posted by war59312
Now why can't there just be two version of Plus?

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Would be a Waste of Patchou's time an prolly Money

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I support this move, it seems wise to make it so you don't get adware every time you get one of these free programs and have to clean it out, however sometimes they need to know where to draw the line, this time I believe they just went a little over by banning optional adware programs, to which the software and it's purpose couldn't be more clearly outlined.

No, it wouldn't be hard to do, just change the installer and remove the sponsor program from it. However if there are two versions (one with the sponsor and one without) it would confuse many people as to what version to get.
Also other sites would start only linking to the version without the sponsor program, and then if people look for the program there and think "Ok, I'll install the sponsor to support this project" they won't be able to without finding another version and getting that. It would just get to be a large carry on, because no one would give the link to the one with the sponsor program. Patchou's income would go down and then Patchou, looking for alternative sources of more income, wouldn't be able to keep Plus up to it's high standards.
If Traxor's e-mail doesn't persuade them, and tbh I doubt they will take much (if any) notice, I will send a similar e-mail to them, and I urge everyone else to. Not just to be a pain in the arse . But the site is a global download database that CNET made for the people, so if enough of the people object, they may take notice. But it may take a large amount of people to get them to do anything.