Quote - [It may also be that, for whatever reason, a provider may only want to offer his free item to members of a certain forum.

 

Last year I was playing around in Paint Shop Pro trying to make a "glowing glass orb." I ended up coming up with something that I thought was quite nice and wanted to share it, but not on a large scale basis.  So I posted a download link in the Paint Shop Pro forum for those who were interested.  It was a gift from me to the members of that forum.

Under the new linking policy I wouldn't have been able to do that and instead would have had to submit the item to free stuff for everyone instead of it being an exclusive freebie gift for a ilmited time to a particular forum.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi