- The following thread was split from discussion of the AutoClipX software and then merged with another about 12Bytes software.
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there has been some discussion on the forums recently regarding my software submissions to PF which i'd like to address...
i'm the developer for 12Bytes [dot] org software, most of which is now shareware and not portable (at least not after it's registered) and this has raised some feathers as my software remained listed here even after it went shareware. of course this is my fault; i should have announced the change and i never did. for that i apologize.
i would like to say however that i had NO intention of going the shareware route when i originally wrote the software, but after several thousand downloads and no donations i started to re-think my strategy and ended up packaging some clickbank desktop shortcuts with my software. when that produced absolutely nothing, i decided to take the next step and go shareware. i would have been much happier if i could have generated just $10 or $20 clams a day as freeware, but that didn't happen (actually the total donations to date is exactly: $0.00).
so... no huge mess in my mind so far, except that a some people here have given me some input while developing my software, which is now shareware, and they seem to feel kind of betrayed which i can completely understand. and so i am happily offering a free license key to anyone who has offered input which i have found useful (and that's probably most of it). i have no problem showing my gratitude and am grateful for the help i've received here. so if you'd like a free key (for any app, not necessarily the one you may have helped with), send me a PM with your email address.
as far the licensing/portability problem, that's something i need to re-think because i'd much rather stay portable where feasible.