🚀 go-pugleaf

vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:

> I would rephrase your sentence to say that in the long run (after the
> trial period), the honorable thing to do is to register the program 
> IF YOU CONTINUE USING IT, yes.  But does that mean that I have to 
> tolerate the unmitigated... !pain! of those Telix nag screens, 
> flashing at me on-and-off, on-and-off, DURING the 30-day trial 
> period?  Absolutely not!
> 
I dunno.

Nag screens seem to be a necessary evil.  The way I see it, you are doing 
two things during the evaluation period of a piece of shareware: deciding 
if you wish to use the program (and pay the fee) and hopefully getting 
some use out of it.  I think that it is well within the author's rights 
to include advertising.

To be honest, if you are using the program enough that the nag screens 
are that much of a pain, you should probably register now! :-)

Finally, put it in perspective - if the software were administering low 
voltage electric shocks during the eval, I could understand being 
outraged.  A couple of nag screens that take a second or two to bypass 
just aren't that big of a deal (to me at least).  

Al


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