Jim Burton opened this issue on Jun 21, 2002 ยท 87 posts
scifiguy posted Sat, 22 June 2002 at 3:50 AM
Wow...I can't believe I read the whole thing!
First, I'll think I'll just say "great post Ironbear!", and ignore the rest of it.
As for the topic of defaults, I think it would be better if it was blank for both things. Look at freestuff right now...everything says stand alone and for non-commercial use except for the brand new stuff and the things people have taken the time to change. Some people are never going to show up to change it, or are too lazy to bother doing so. So much for accurate search results.
If something has to be a default and it can't be blank, I prefer default being non-commercial simply because when I see something that says "commercial use" I know they are still active and took the time to provide accurate information. Otherwise, there's going to be tons of stuff that says its for commercial use but isn't.
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't recall ever download something without realizing I needed to own something else first so that flag isn't too important to me. Having the notes viewable is nice though. Always wondered why you could enter them but they didn't show up anywhere.