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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:22:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> What I object to in this instance is the amount when there is no 
> material or tooling costs involved.  He's putting up a great promise, 
> collecting the cash for something that may or may not satisfy.

Well, that risk is there even with material and tooling costs.
Take, for instance, AdTrap.  The result works fairly well, but
when they said it even catches adverts in videos, what they
didn't go on to say was it makes you wait for the same length
of time as if you were actually seeing them.

Billy Y..
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