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Memtest

command-line memory testing utility

Version:  4.22

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What you need to understand...

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Contributed by: Don10 Monday, August 27 2007 @ 03:38 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Whilst this is a really useful troubleshooting tool, the developer has decided to charge for each download - so technically this is not shareware, but a commercial product, but with no update provision. The developer indicated to me in an email that it was 'all too hard to do it any other way' when I queried this. Strange, but true.

So, even if you have paid the 1.39 charge to download a previous version, if you wish to download the latest version you must pay again, regardless of whether it is a major or minor update. When you 'purchase' the software you are given an expiring URL to your download. If you need to redownload there is that option to request a new URL, but this is just for the version previously downloaded, not the latest version. You get a password protected .dmg which you unlock with a password provided with the URL email.

Whilst I'm not sure that you can produce a demo of a CLI software, I would have thought the password-protected .dmg would be sufficient to allow paying supporters of the product to stay current with bug fixes etc, rather than have to pay each and every time - otherwise what incentive is there to support the developer? This needs to be made clear.   

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Common less than $2 - what's the beef? - kgould1

Surely you can't begrudge the guys their paltry fee, Memtest has saved me a lot of aggro, I just cannot in good conscience complain that the upgrades are chargeable when the fee is trivial.

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