José Luis Sánchez in avemundi
has been asking in the Planeta Código forum whether he should
release a limited version of his software, or a free version. It
turns out that a reasonably well controlled experiment of this
question has been carried out: Why
Do People Register, Does Crippling Work, Does Anybody Really Know?
by Colin Messitt. The sad conclusion is that if the user doesn't have
to pay for some functionality that she requires, then she wont. It is
up to the author of the software to create some kind of appropriate
reason for the potential user to buy.
Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) in Bitácora
de Guti announces the release of the Alpha version 0.40.113 of
his XPlorer,
a multi-tabbed file manager and replacement for the standard Windows
Explorer. He is asking for people to test it and report any problems
as the applications is almost ready to enter the Beta phase of
development.
Carlos Rovira in carlosrovira.com
announces the publication of a talk he gave at OFLA, the first
conference on Flash Open Source, entitled, High-Scale
Enterprise OSFlash Projects.
mig21 in Yet Another
Programming Weblog posts a link to the article, A
guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell by Ryan Paul, which is
an in-depth view of the new Microsoft command shell, Monod.
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