As much as I hate to say it, "it could have been worse" - it appears
that the ads they are using are Google AdSense text ads, which are far
less offensive than their animated, Flash-based brethren.

I'm wondering, though, if they're even allowed to do that with the
Google ads. I recall their terms of service being rather stringent.

On 7/21/05, Matt Pobursky <piclist@mps-design.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I didn't get the impression that any functions are crippled but some
> functionality is definitely missing vs. Alibre Design. I fully expected
> that and I think any of the users who paid for the Alibre Design
> software would be pretty upset if they didn't. What I was hoping they'd
> do is give away the current Alibre Design 8.x software as the "freebie"
> and require users to pay to upgrade to the upcoming 9.0 version. That
> would seem to be a logical and fair thing to do. That way new users
> would get real 3D modeling and expose Alibre to a lot of new users and
> still possibly entice them into upgrading to newer and better software.
> 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.
> 


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