Time for a new approach on advertising...?

[SkyFrontier]

Comment 13 by user Rob at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tabbles-home/ suggests a free version of XYplorer, which doesn't currently exists.

Few days ago DaemonTools Pro was given away thru that site, just like a few major names of the industry over time (Aston Shell, muVee, almost all Paragon software, Almeza's MultiSet, Blindwrite, several Alawar games, among others...).

Recently USB Safely Remove ran a similar strategy giving away 10.000 licenses of their great software few days prior to launching a major release.

What you think on doing such a thing, Don, once XYplorer is near to its version 10 and even a standard license could be welcome amongst Giveaway of the Day's users/supporters?

(considered to post this under "FAQs and Polls", but last minute this one made more sense - feel free to move it to wherever it fits better...)

[admin]

What do I think about giving away free licenses? I did this once in 2008 (BitsDuJour). It was ok but I could not register an overwhelming publicity impact.

[tux.]

Actually, using a keygen is the most common way to explore "payware" before buying it.
30 days are not enough for everyone. Anyway, the "free culture" on the internet is constantly breeding new software "pirates".

If I really like a software, I will give it a try for some time and buy a license eventually, even if I could (illegally) use it for free. If I don't, I won't.

Everyone has the same choice: Use free software or use proprietary shareware products. XYplorer is one of the latter, so...
I second the dev's doubt about the potential advertising.