Well... after poking around the Alibre and Alibre Xpress sites I'd have
to conclude you are right about Alibre Xpress being Adware.=20

This is most disappointing even though it really doesn't affect me
personally.=20

I think Alibre has made a big mistake using adware in any shape or=20
form. It sucks with Opera and Eudora and I don't use either of them and=20
never will. It does appear they may have some nominal registration fee
to get rid of the adware (like Opera and Eudora). If it were available
and I liked the software I might choose this route. Still, they created
unreasonable expectations with the way they "sold" the software and I
think killed any goodwill they may have generated in the process.

I didn't get the impression that any functions are crippled but some=20
functionality is definitely missing vs. Alibre Design. I fully expected=20
that and I think any of the users who paid for the Alibre Design=20
software would be pretty upset if they didn't. What I was hoping they'd=20
do is give away the current Alibre Design 8.x software as the "freebie"=20
and require users to pay to upgrade to the upcoming 9.0 version. That=20
would seem to be a logical and fair thing to do. That way new users=20
would get real 3D modeling and expose Alibre to a lot of new users and=20
still possibly entice them into upgrading to newer and better software.=20
Silly me, I guess that's why I'm not the marketing director at a
software company!

Hmmmm. I'll wait to see how this plays out but I am going to post a
comment on the Alibre site and let them know I think they made a big
mistake in how they handled all this. I have been a big proponent of
Alibre up until now. I'm not sure if I still will be after this mess.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:59:42 -0400, Peter van Hoof wrote:
>=A0If you look on the site, you can find that all screenshots show about
>=A0a fifth of the screen is covered by adverising, in comments on the
>=A0forum =A0there are post's of alibre employees claiming the program
>=A0needs an internet connection for the ads, crippled functions (even
>=A0though a full version was promised ) I am not impressed
>=A0
>=A0Peter van Hoof.
>=A0
>=A0----- Original Message -----
>=A0From: "Randy Glenn" <randy.glenn@gmail.com>
>=A0To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>=A0Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:03 AM
>=A0Subject: Re: [OT:] X-cad
>=A0
>=A0
>=A0>=A0Where do you get the adware part? Why wouldn't it be something al=
ong
>=A0>=A0the lines of EAGLE Light?
>=A0>
>=A0>=A0On 7/20/05, Peter van Hoof <peter@whacky-scientist.com>=A0wrote:
>=A0>>=A0Ok , so I was deceived this is a crippled adware infected piece =
of crap
>=A0>>=A0software.
>=A0>>=A0They are not exactly doing their company a favor with this
>=A0>>

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