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Usually when somebody becomes to give out free what previously was charged
for, one might suspect something smells not good in such a deal.
First thing to think about is spyware (program works OK, but sends your
private info to the undesclosured recipients), then a email collection for
further spam (email address is required to "activate" a program). And
another possibility is that a data feed provider paid them enough to make
the programs free (maybe in combination with #1 and/or #2) to increase its
own sales.
Of course there is another possibility - they just decided to leave for the
Buddah monastery, so to save their souls they're getting rid of all unsold
copies of their programs :-)
Yesterday after Carl's post my first thought was: what the heck? I'll try
one of these things and if it works OK behind a firewall, I'll use it
instead of my paid program that does the same (or almost the same). So I
downloaded a program and activated it on an almost empty computer. It seems
that it works despite of fact that it did not :) - actually it is a thing
that might be fixed, but it seems that my configuration was not supported.
No big deal, I thought, closed a program and forget about it. I found it
again running in the evening, doing something on my hard drive and trying
the ports to make an outgoing connection.
So you never know what were the truly intensions of those who're marketing
these free deals,
those who've paid them to make the programs free and those who have actually
written a software and were able to implant some trojans in it (usual thing
with offshore programming).
Good trades,
Andrew C. Shir
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Tick Trading, Ltd.
Richmond Hill, ON
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl" <i1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:03 PM
Subject: Free Trading Software for TS
> This is not spam or a commercial ad. I became aware that the folks at
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> http://www.hypertrader.it
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> have decided to give away free their previously commercial software.
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