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Originally posted by Guido
That's all and great, but what's your solution? Removing the sponsor? Replacing it with an ad banner in the preferences panel? That would:
a) increase Plus popularity significantly
b) decrease Patchou's income completely or significantly
c) make features such as the one you mention, sound emotions, financially inviable. They are not free to run.
I don't have one solution that i can give that would increase Plus's! popularity while increasing Patchou's income and allowing more expensive features to remain. Its a tricky situation
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This is just the same as the fact that I never was (and never will be) a big supporter of direct download/mirror links to software on unofficial sites but rather direct links to informative official sites where the user has all the crucial info he needs...
Very good point Cookie
, i understand what you mean in that regard. But even though more people are becomming aware about the effects of spyware not everyone will therefore distinguish Plus as being
A) Optional &
B) A unevasive sponsor which is easily uninstalled.
Some people will do the opposite and start categorising everything remotely near spyware as it. You must know this as you hear it on the forums all the time, its reoccurent - its not going to stop as people learn more about spyware. Sure theres going to be a large amount of people that will finally understand that Plus! does not damage your system. But theres also going to be people that will falsely accuse Plus! of being malacious as the issue of spyware increases.
An example of this is my grandmother, i go to her house and try and help her with her computer and half my software i can't even install because it might be spyware and might delete all her thousands of photos! She hears anything on trusted sources and then takes it a step further and believes that anything remotely near spyware (optional sponors) is not good!
Nice discussion we have going here though, you can see the whole arugment from multiple sides
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