Re: some filters i have wrote.

[Tim Lister <tal@maxtal.com.au>]

At 07:00 PM 7/29/99 +0200, Michael Johannhanwahr wrote:
>Tim,
>
>I'm not very happy with the remarks on your homepage.
>
>Why does Filter Factory suck badly?

you want a list, already?

>There are hundreds of great filters made with FF. It's great as soon 
>as you get the hang of it. And FF is the reason why there is such a 
>great Mailing list like this.

yeah, and a fair few more that can't be written at all,
due to limitations like 1K per channel code area, "cnv" is
dodgy, sliders/maps are always labelled 0..255, etc., etc.

>What do you mean with "FiFo is SenilityWare"?
>It's just time limited Shareware. If you like it and want to use it, 
>you have to pay for it. Nothing wrong with it in my opinion.

check out the Association of Shareware Professionals,
at http://www.asp-shareware.org/1-faq.asp

i quote:

"Nag screens and other limitations might increase registrations on smaller
programs but a look at history shows every program that became a "standard
of the industry" have used no registration incentives designed to annoy the
user. These include WinZIP, PKZip, AsEasyAs, Procomm, Telix, and the trend
goes back to even PC-Talk, PC-File, and PC-Write.  These are the real
money-makers (along with major games like Doom of course)."


>And what do you mean with "FM is ClumsyWare"?
>Maybe you forgot that FM is still beta software? The final version 
>surely will have an option to compile standalone filters.

yeah, "beta software"; consider that "ClumsyWare" means much the same
in this case.

>Please be carefull with such kind of remarks.

OK, if it upsets you so much, i'll edit the page to not say horrid
things any more.

<EDIT> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~tal/Filters/index.html </EDIT>

happy, now?

reggae,
	tal
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