Hello people,
Someone contacted me to include a "financed remcommandation" in the installation of LazPaint. In fact, it is about installing explicitely an adware. I thanked him about asking me instead of publishing installations files with adwares without my consent. And at least, it is a visible, not a covert installation.
He showed me an installation program saturated with spyware. Clearly I would not agree to make this with LazPaint for two reasons : tons of pages of adware for a single program is just absurd and painful for users, and the checkboxes were checked by default. I understand that it's a way to get people installing those additional softwares, but it's not what I would call a free choice.
So I told him that the minimum condition would be that the checkbox would not be checked by default, and that it would be easy to uninstall. Indeed, I looked over the Internet about such programs, and often they are impossible to uninstall for standard users. He garanteed me that it would not be the case, and that it could be uninstalled in the control panel.
Even with all these conditions, and even if I think that it would be fair that I get money for my program, I am not convinced that it would be a good idea. This is clearly a controversial issue.
In any case, it raises the question about getting money for what we do, because you know, you need to eat sometimes.
What do you think about it?