Who sent you an automated message asking you to post about this?
Well the e-mail message indirectly told me to post here, since i wouldn't get an answer directly from Piriform due to them being "busy"
E-Mail message:
Hi, thanks for your email.
If you have a bug to report or a feature to suggest, then please register at http://forum.piriform.com/
and post a message detailing the issue you are having. Registration is fast and free and our forum members are really very helpful.
Or, if you have a question about our products you can almost certainly find the answer at http://docs.piriform.com
Sorry about this automated response, but we’re really busy creating great applications
Please do not reply to this email as we will not receive the reply.
Perhaps they have a full time job working for a software company, like does it really matter how they make their income??
They provide software for free and people should be grateful for that.
Richard S.
Did my first post sound ungrateful ?
I'm interested in learning how a free software company works, income is a part of that.
I'm thinking about releasing some software for free in the future so i'm learning the ins and outs right now, not found much detailed information about this subject so a ask....
Most email clients provide additional information (email header) this contains useful data such as IP address of sender, mail servers and their IP's, and the path the message had taken.
Unfortunately it appears hotmail lacks such functionality to expand the message header which kinds of sucks.
I'm interested in learning how a free software company works, income is a part of that.
This isn't an official reply from Piriform since I'm just a regular user like everyone else however; my guess is this:
* Bundled in third party apps, in Piriform's case this would be Yahoo Toolbar.
* Donations.
* They have an everyday job and fund their products out of their own pockets - this is actually very common and is why so many once freeware programs go commercial simply because it gets too expensive to do it all out of pocket.
* Grant from some wealthy donor, company, or their government.
So should i be offended and reply rudely or am i misunderstanding your question ?
Nope, you're not misunderstanding my question.
Because we've had people on here before demanding information about Piriform as a company, and kicking up a real fuss because they couldn't find any through the normal channels, my first thought was this could be another poster with the sole intention of creating mischief.
Your question about how does Piriform make money, coupled with your username, immediately made me suspicious of your motives.
Suspicions unfounded as it turns out, and apologies if I caused you any offence, but that's the reason for them.