Comment by darknavi
I am partial to QuickScan[1] as it is free and has no ads. It does not seem to be open source though.
I am partial to QuickScan[1] as it is free and has no ads. It does not seem to be open source though.
It's funny how we tolerate Winrar doing that but on the phone it seems more annoying.
Who's "we"? It seems it's only Windows users. Linux users don't use Winrar, and I don't know offhand of any nagware like this in Linux-land.
Sublime does it, at least with Merge.
It’s weird to think Linux programs would somehow be different from Windows in this regard. Why would a program running in Linux are more altruistic (for lack of a better term) than one running in Windows?
>Why would a program running in Linux are more altruistic (for lack of a better term) than one running in Windows?
It's an entirely different culture. Windows users are used to paying for software (starting with the OS), and Linux users aren't. So the monetization strategies are different. For Sublime, that seems to be primarily a Windows program that tried to cross over, so it's not surprising it would reflect that history.
You are right I've totally never seen any funding messages in NPM :)
I did say "offhand"; I'm not personally familiar with npm. There is some stuff like this in Linux-land if you know where to look, of course, such as the message in Vim, but even there you only see it if you start the program without any filename argument, or look in the docs, so it's hard to call that "nagware", which usually means something that won't allow you to use the software without first reading and acknowledging the advertisement.
I've donated twice but i havent done the big amount so it still bothers me
QuickScan looks great and has loads of features, but it might be more accurately described as "nagware" since a donation request is shown on every export until a donation is made (after which point it can be disabled via Settings > Other settings > "Do not show donation request"). Nothing wrong with that; if I were a user I'd certainly donate, just wanted to let other potential users know.