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Originally posted by Anubis
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Originally posted by Dempsey
But i thoguth all proceeds from the store goto charity not Patchou anyway?
Indeed. Anything you pay gets doubled and sent to the red cross.
(and that can only be done because there is a sponsor in Plus. Don't even dream about that, about free PSPs and laptops, and about huge expensive servers running a sound emotions feature, if there wasn't an optional sponsor)
As Cookie mentioned, this has been gone over lots of times. Trust me, if Patchou had a better way of making money from his free software, he would be using it. Needless to say he doesn't like to be bashed in so many sites on the web for this "forced spyware" which is just clearly optional adware, but if he has to choose between quitting developing Plus and looking for an average job, or making money out of Plus, giving a part to the red cross, giving another part to users in the way of prizes, being able to mantain costly features (sounds) and sites (such as this very server, which IIRC is paid by the sponsor) and living as he deserves to live, then hell he'd chose the second option. And he has every right to do so.
A great move by Download.com. Unfortunately, most of the software with adware or spyware isn't as great as Messenger Plus!, many hide it in obfuscated setups or just don't give you an option to avoid it (i.e. Kazaa Media Desktop). Many are crappy programs that just live to make money from adware (read: weather icons, supposed spyware cleaners, etc.). Now Download.com is finally clean of all that. If Msgplus had to be removed, well, so be it. Download.com is not the primary source for Msgplus downloads anyway, and people are going to hear about its great features in any case.
That's my view about it. It doesn't affect Msgplus significantly, and it benefits us as Download.com users.
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