[Bf-marketing] shareware sites?

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Shareware has a very bad name in opensource world. Shareware websites  
too. And outfilling software I would stay away from at all costs. The  
Blender website gets attacked by such programs too, which is extremely  
annoying.

I don't think there's a problem with our distribution model (apart from  
a more efficient way to manage mirrors, but that's technical). What we  
could do though is a shortlist of some quality websites to make sure  
Blender is listed uptodate there.
That includes sites like sun.com/sgi.com/apple.com but also  
versiontracker.com or download.com. That's just manual work we can put  
on the release scenario list as todo.

-Ton-


On 7 Apr, 2006, at 10:59, Tom M wrote:

> Should we try and get Blender on shareware sites?
>
> I've done some checking there are many hundered sites, although most
> are probably fairly low traffic.
>
> There is a tool called Aid Submission, which is 99$ but gives you one
> free trial submission of 420 sites (its business model is to do
> autoform filling etc. and to keep its site list up to date...)
>
> Also there is a standardized XML file called PAD format which
> describes all that the various sites need to know about the software,
> also there is a free utility for creating PAD compliant files.
>
> It might worthwhile to submit the free trial test for the above, and
> perhaps keep some of the prominent shareware and review sites updated.
>
> LetterRip
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