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Crap Software Awards

Friday, August 17, 2007    0 Comments

Well, I figured there was a little of this going on, but I didn't think it was nearly as bad as an article suggests (that I just came across online). Basically this guy wrote some software that doesn't even properly execute. He sent it to a bunch of software download sites, and so far has won 16 awards for his application.



Link to Successful Software's article. Thanks for telling the world about this practice. Click-backs is pretty greedy, although hosting prices aren't cheap for sites that generate a lot of traffic and eat up a lot of bandwidth. Its still a lousy practive though and clouds the frontier of software one can trust. If it wins awards, one might assume that downloading and running it would be beneficial. However, now you have to pay special attention to the site offering the software, or else just ignore awards and look towards application comments from real-world users. I opt for that most of the time anyway.

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