Softmaker, Malwarebytes, and lots of other free offerings have nag screens to get you to upgrade to a paid service.
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oh that kind of free software, yeah i'm using open source software wherever i can specifically because i despise nag screens like that. Most of the time I don't even get update nag screens because the package manager takes care of it.
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they don't do that if you pay for them
Can any of those offerings match the capability and usability of for-proft software?
Some, but they usually fail when competing with more complex software suites like Office. Simpler stuff like a torrent client is great.
Well, a torrent client isn’t exactly competing against anything from big box software development.
Need more? There are also Zotero, Calibre, Firefox, Notepad++.
Personally, I get AIDS when making a document with pictures in LibreOffice, but for being free and open source, it's impressive. I think it's a good example though, because there are very many people who would be better off with free LibreOffice than paying yearly for Office 365 for the three pages they write in that year.
I just wish FreeCAD wasn't so shit.
While I agree that Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of the worst things that's ever happened to software consumers, the free alternatives just don't really get the job done. You mentioned FireFox which is a bit of an exception, but it too does a bit of nagging for paid services....although it's nowhere close to being annoying as something like Malwarebytes.
Haben Sie schon einmal Unternehmenssoftware von Unternehmen wie SAP und der Software AG im Einsatz?
Sie haben nie für ein gutes Unternehmen gearbeitet. Ich verstehe.
I haven't worked a lot overall, and never for a large company. I disagree about those big ERP systems defining how "good" a company is supposed to be. SAP especially seems to cost insane amounts of money while bureaucratizing the shit out of a company structure, reducing flexibility. But whatever, I wouldn't know.
Ja, SAP hat definitiv einige Nachteile, aber viele große und mittelständische Unternehmen nutzen die Software immer noch.
That may be largely due to them being dependent on it. It's an incredible amount of work to implement or change an ERP system. My boss is procrastinating getting a proper ERP because of this, so I won't judge someone avoiding a change, even if that means paying out of their ass for SAP.