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Noel Carboni wrote:
...I can't help but get the feeling there's some kind of ulterior motive here... Maybe he's the author and he's going to offer a paid upgrade at some point?
One does not typically host a free, GPL, open source project on code.google.com with ulterior motives.
XNView is a well-established program and this Explorer thumbnail program which uses the same graphic library appears to be fine. That graphic library is free for non-commercial projects like this thumbnail viewer.
Believe it or not, some people offer things out of the goodness of their heart.
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Dec 23, 2006Marian Driscoll wrote:
Noel Carboni wrote:
...I can't help but get the feeling there's some kind of ulterior motive here... Maybe he's the author and he's going to offer a paid upgrade at some point?
One does not typically host a free, GPL, open source project on code.google.com with ulterior motives.
XNView is a well-established program and this Explorer thumbnail program which uses the same graphic library appears to be fine. That graphic library is free for non-commercial projects like this thumbnail viewer.
Believe it or not, some people offer things out of the goodness of their heart.
Posting on an active thread is helpful. Digging up a few might be considered very helpful.
All he's doing is posting a link.
Digging up all known old threads on the subject seems very aggressive, and one starts to wonder if there's motivation by something besides the desire to be helpful. Is this is an author who has plans to convert to donationware or find some way to monetize it in the future, or offer other things for sale on the site? I don't know, is there an advantage to search-engine-optimizing one's Google page ranking?
I don't know code.google.com from Adam. I use Google search, but try to stay away from most of the rest of Google. Google is the very definition of "ulterior motive" in my book.
-Noel
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