The Wonder Of Freeware
Posted 18th December 2006 at 1:31pm by M1ke, tagged as Internet, Utilities | Commenting Closed
There aren't any nag screens, trial periods, or anything that you have to worry about; just download, install, and run.
Free ware is indeed amazing, hence why Ryan of CyberNet is so delighted about TinyApps.org, a site that lists programs that tend not be larger than a few megabytes. He lists his own reasons as to why he likes it but he didn't point out my favourite - it's never multi-purpose. Generally you download a single program to do one single task - that's why they're so efficient and small.
Commercial software, because it tries to offer "value" tends to cram in all sorts of features that you'll probably never use and just slow the program down. Added to that a single program may attempt to do wildly different tasks, which further complicates the problem when you find a program that's better at one but not both - you use that as well, and the same functionality in the other program becomes redundant.
I currently use the NOD32 anti-virus program, but plans are afoot to release an 'Internet Security Suite' next year. Should this replace the stand-alone virus scanner they can rest assured I won't be buying into it, for the exact same multi-tasking reason. I have better programs that do firewall, spyware scanning etc. and don't need a big program running constantly to try and handle everything.
I know people these days aren't the most intelligent or adaptive when it comes to software, but sometimes the commercial entities should try and get people to play their tune, opening up the public to a more logical view of software and thus allowing and encouraging innovation. Until then the bedroom coder is still the king of the utilities.
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