I get tired of the hoops some companies expect you to go through to download the Free Software versions of their products. JPedal, a PDF viewing library for Java, is one such example. They have an LGPL version of their library, but you must fill out a form asking for email and name in order to get it. Big deal, right? Just make something up, right? Seems like they have someone manually processing these requests, which means delays in getting what you need.
This is Free Software, isn't it? So, here are the direct links to the JPedal LGPL licensed software:
Binary: http://www.jpedal.org/download/lgpl/jpedal_lgpl.jar
Source: http://www.jpedal.org/download/lgpl/jpedal_lgpl_src.zip
p.s. According to the source, the latest version (as of this writing) is: 4.11b76
Friday, April 16, 2010
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2 comments:
Adam,
Its done automatically and you are taken straight to the page with the download links on. As you say, you don't even need to post a valid email address if you are paranoid.
We just ask for an email address so we can get an idea where the software is being downloaded from. IS that so unreasonable?
We go to a lot of trouble to make a version of the software freely available, we spend our lives updating it and answering questions on the forums and wonder why we bother when we see your comments...
Thanks Mark for your comments. Because my reply would have gone long, I've posted a new blog post as a reply.
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