apronk Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Since I couln't reply with my freshly registered account to the announcement forum, I figured I'd post my dislike towards the new version here. I thought, hey a new version of ImgBurn! As a Loving fan of ImgBurn, I posted several praising comments about it on m favorite dutch news site tweakers(dot)net. Only to find out that my favorite burning program has turned evil, adding a (debatable) "hidden" menu option to install some icon crap that lead to other programs no-one asks for or has a need for when installing ImgBurn. Now I understand that a single programmer needs some kind of funding to keep such a great program up-to-date with new features, bug-fixing and testing of drives. I thought that was what the Donate part was for. But still I can understand adding things to the installer to indeed get some needed funds, hard work should be rewarded. But it is entirely questionable "hiding" those adware stuff in the installer options under "icons". Moreover it is downright misleading adding them under the Tools menu of the program itself. Like I said it is a free program, therefor pretty much solely at the author's discretion of what he decides to do with it. But a vast community should count for something. This has happened many times in the past (DivX anyone?) to it will probably end up having 1 free version with adware and one "pro" version without, which will costs a slight amount of money. After that the adware version will vanish and diminish the name of ImgBurn and only the pro one will survive in a lesser degree and become just "one of the burning programs". This is the beginning of the end. The dismay of ImgBurn to paint a grim picture...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Read: http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14063 P.S. nothing was being 'hidden', they're under the 'shortcuts and icons' section because that's all they are - they're shortcuts to a web page.
eSkRo Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 (edited) @apronk: we can can EnJoY ImgBurn again!!! No more ADS in ImgBurn!!! Thank you LUK! !!! Edited March 17, 2010 by eSkRo
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