RE: [OT] Announcements (was RE: XMLLight - What do you think?)

[Vadim Permyakov <vadimpermyakov@hotmail.com>]

Hi Elliotte,

XMLLight API is FREE. (too light to be asked for fee)

I'm sorry that I did not mentioned about it, but on the Web site it was 
under section "Free Downloads" and in license there was info about it.

Now this info is on the main page:

http://www.softcorporation.com/products/xmllight/

Vadim

>From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: RE: [OT] Announcements (was RE: XMLLight - What do you think?)
>Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 10:04:05 -0400
>
>At 9:12 AM -0500 8/3/01, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> >In the announcment or on the web page?  I prefer
> >the announcement to be light on details except those
> >that tell me why I should click on the link and
> >get the details.
>
>It should be in the announcement. I find that companies that push their 
>free demo versions often hide their pricing on the web site to until you 
>actually decide to purchase. In several cases (e.g. Antenna House, RenderX) 
>the pricing isn't even on their web sites.
>
>Generally speaking these tactics are designed to suck in as many people as 
>possible. It's the first hit is always free approach. Of course most of the 
>evaluators will not buy the second hit, but in this case there's no cost to 
>the vendor for the first hit. If they can waste the time of 1000 evaluators 
>with the free demo in order to make one more sale, they're happy to do so. 
>I find that requiring the price is one filter that helps weed out 
>unscrupulous companies that pollute the commons for their own gain.
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