The StyleXP part is over?

Tuesday, December 18, 2001 by John Hamp | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Turns out that StyleXP ain't free afterall. It's now $20 and the version that they released last month secretly had an expiration date that times out telling you to buy. In other words, they knew they were going to start charging a month ago but didn't tell anyone so that they'd make as many skins as possible. Now they've pulled the rug out from under them.

http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8178
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TasT
Reply #1 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:31 PM
It seems that both StylesXP ( the hack ) and StyleBuilder have become shareware...

IMO that will spell the death of TGT's efforts..

davad70
Reply #2 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:05 PM
In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle...."Surprise, Surprise!"

koop
Reply #3 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:38 PM
I have this funny theory about morality. When a company or individual does things that are immoral at the outset (public name-calling, IP address spoofing, such) they are likely to continue to do immoral things in the future. Getting people to use your software and not telling them that they will need to pay for it is immoral.... and stupid.

davad70
Reply #4 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 2:46 PM
Some comments regarding this from one of the developers at another board http://www.themexp.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1770#1770

Firestorm
Reply #5 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 3:05 PM
The lack of common sense in that company is amazing... Unethical? Sure, we knew that pretty much from the get-go. But I didn't think they were this *self-censored name-calling*

Silverado Trucker
Reply #6 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:07 PM
Wait guys, fair is fair, when I first downloaded the software from their site a month or two ago it had a register software link at their main page that said the program costs 20 bucks. Anyway I tried it and went back to WB v3 Just wanted to let you all know they were not being sneaky. I DO NOT WORK FOR TGT SOFT. If you seen my post earlier this month about how you guys act like you hate StyleXP so much, the above posts prove my point.

Hell Dragon
Reply #7 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:22 PM
Silverado Trucker: I think the $20 was originally for the Style Builder, and not for StyleXP.

Silverado Trucker
Reply #8 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:34 PM
Hell Dragon I believe it was for StyleXP also. They are both 20 bucks each. But hell I could be wrong. Enough of my ranting, I'm tired, gonna have a smoke and a Budweiser and relax

davad70
Reply #9 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:46 PM
I've been all over TGT and every other "stylexp" site for the past few months and have never seen anything about StylesXP being shareware, Only Stylebuilder. Granted, they never out and out said it was freeware, but they've let everyone believe that it would be free for months now. They have right to charge for their "program" if they choose, just don't let everyobe believe it's going to be free when it's not. There have been several threads on several boards where discussion of StylesXP have taken place. TGT people have even taken part in these, but never corrected anyone when they made that lame comparison that Styles was better than WB if for no other reason than it's free.

Istari
Reply #10 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:46 PM
All this time I thought you had to actually write software to charge for it. Apparently the better way is to crack OTHER people's software and charge for the crack.

Sugaree
Reply #11 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:17 PM
This is hilarious!

Silverado Trucker
Reply #12 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:39 PM
me agrees with China

Silverado Trucker
Reply #13 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:48 PM
This messageboard is like a soap opera sometimes. I love this place.




Istari
Reply #14 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:03 PM
So if I write a crack to crack Style XP which cracks MS's theme protection, can I charge for that?

I promise to write important sounding posts saying how we have had "discussions" with the makers of StyleXP (not say what they said of course) and imply that they are "aware" of what I'm doing and therefore approve of it.

I'll only charge $10. I'm not greedy you know.

Hell Dragon
Reply #15 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:22 PM
Tandis, then I'll crack your crack for $5 ... what a bargin!

TasT
Reply #16 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:10 PM
$2.50 ANYONE?

Chris
Reply #17 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:16 PM
$1.25 (is this a reverse auction? hehe! )

Firestorm
Reply #18 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:41 PM
A crack of a crack of a crack? There's a dirty joke in there somewhere, but I ain't touching it

TheSkinsFactory
Reply #19 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:42 PM
That would be poetic justice. Someone needs to "patch" stylesxp's patch.

paxx
Reply #20 Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:47 PM
Exerpt from an interview with TGT Soft made by DeviantArt on 11/06/2001:

------- exerpt begins here ---------
deviantART: How much does Style XP cost?

TGT Soft: Style XP is free and will probably remain free until we can provide more content. The patch to uxtheme.dll will always be free.
------- end of exerpt ---------

So, what content is that?

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