X-Message-Number: 10679 Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 23:31:37 +0300 From: "Mikhail V. Soloviev" <> Subject: FREEWARE FOREVER FREEWARE FOREVER This is an idea for one more way to promote cryonics and immortalism. Much computer software is distributed as *freeware* (i.e. free), and freeware web sites are the most visited sites on the Internet. Usually, besides being represented on these sites, a freeware program has its own web site, containing information about the program (help, known bugs, examples, plans for further development, etc.). Here is an offer I make to people interested in promoting cryonics and immortalism and having (or being able to write) their own freeware programs: to organize one common web site for their programs. A possible name for the site is *FREEWARE FOREVER* (meaning "if you join cryonics you may be able to use your favorite freeware programs forever"). It could be subtitled "a collection of freeware, developed by immortalists and advocates." Besides information about the freeware programs, the web site would contain information (brief descriptions, banners, links) about cryonics/immortalism. I could maintain such a web site, but I need help to create it. I think it should be in America, thus I need somebody who would organize it. I see two possibilities. (1) It could be an independent web site. Then it is necessary to pay an Internet provider, first, to register the web site, second, to rent disk space on the provider's web server. (Here in Russia it would cost at least $100-$300 a year; as far as I know the American prices are a little greater.) (2) Or it could be a web page on some existing cryonics web site. Then possibly it would be necessary to pay for extra disk space (cost should be much lower than in (1)). I have several ideas for useful freeware programs and 3 programs under development. (I wrote them in my spare time and the development is going slowly, but I now have simple prototypes.) These I could contribute to this web site. (The "Pro" versions of these programs will be distributed as *shareware*, but the "Lite" versions will be *freeware* -- this is the commonly recommended marketing.) The three programs are: 1. Cellular Automata Image Transformer (1Q 1999)* 2. System for Automated Analysis of Aging Mechanisms** (2Q 1999)* 3. Mind Engine for the Personal Computer (3Q 1999)* ---------- *the planned date of the alpha-version release ** it could be adapted to analyze anti-freezing mechanisms If you are interested in this project, please write me: Mikhail Soloviev, email: Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10679