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I would like to take this opportunity to note that all NirSoft tools are closed source. Its nice that "Nir" or whoever has made them freely available, but when
by svnpenn 5y ago
I would like to take this opportunity to note that all NirSoft tools are closed source.
Its nice that "Nir" or whoever has made them freely available, but when the day comes that they are not updated anymore, because of lack of interest, or life changes or whatever, all the effort that went into making them is lost to history. No one will be able to fork the project, or continue on with the work, as the source code was never released.
- thesuperbigfrog 5y agoIt is "Nir" or whoever's work and choice about what license to use. If you wrote a book and some of your readers demanded that you let them write the sequels, you might be quite annoyed. Creators have rights and it is respectful and just to honor their choices. Maybe "Nir" or whoever will release the tools under an open source license upon retirement or something, but that is up to them.
- guenthert 5y agoIt isn't disrespectful to point out that choice and in fact helpful to us consumers who might chose not to bother with such software as all too often such became abondonware. I recall cases where the author had a disk crash, no back-up and then gave up out of frustration or another case where the author died untimely.
- FounderBurr 5y agoBy most measures these programs are more “free” than any gpl software.
- svnpenn 5y agoIt seems you dont know what open source means.