J J Ramsey

Reply to Ripping & Piracy Double standard? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Careful, Frogboy, about simply equating piracy with the loss of food on a software developer's table. In your case, a pirated copies likely represents a lost sale, since Stardock's wares (at least the desktop wares) are modestly priced, so whoever pirates them probably both could afford the software and be willing to pay for a legit copy if that were the only way they could get it. For professionally priced software like Photoshop, things gets dicey and weird. Most of those who pirate P

Reply to Lincustomize? if only! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There already is such a web site. It's called themes.org. For the past few months, its maintainers have pretty much torpedoed the site, replacing a working website (still at classic.themes.org) with a buggy, slow one. Alternatively, for the KDE and GNOME likers, there is kde-look.org and sunshineinabag.co.uk, respectively.

Reply to WinCustomize changes coming.. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I like having WinXP skins as a separate category, though, because that way I can tell easily whether a skin will decorate the taskbar or not. I would imagine that it would be confusing for a newbie to find some skins skinning the taskbar and some not. Maybe call the "WinXP skins" section "Windowblinds skins for XP"? It would be verbose, but accurate.

Reply to Microsoft has to hand over its code in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Said Frogboy: "What is the justification for handing over the code?" The answer is pretty much in the article. MS contends that Internet Explorer (and I think a few other goodies) cannot be cleanly excised from Windows XP because it is an integral part of Windows. The states contend that Internet Explorer is enmeshed into Windows not because of real design integration, but because MS commingled the source codes of IE and the rest of Windows in a way that was not technically necessa