Invisible wrote:

> 
> No. But if somebody shouts "FREE STUFF!" and then carefully tricks you 
> into having to actually pay money for it... to me, that's very dodgy.
> 
> If stuff costs money then fine. But don't claim something is free when 
> it isn't. That's deception.
> 

I generally won't buy if the sample version only serves to be an 
advertisement for the full version. (IOW, I can't really evaluate if it 
will do what I need it to do, sure it tells me I can recover files, but 
will it, and is the level of recovery worth the money I'm about to 
spend?) Otherwise I go by the recommendation of those whose opinions i 
respect. Adobe did it right.. You can get a working version of Photoshop 
and play around with it for 30 days, with premiere elements, it was a 
bit different. You had a 30 day trial, but any movie you created had an 
annoying overlay, which was fine, I could actually see that it fit my 
needs.

The most insidious I've found is some games have a 60 minute trial 
period. You'll be happily playing the game and Bang! you're kicked out 
at 1 hour with a message saying "You can continue playing if you pay up, 
NOW."

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