Hi,
Yes, shade45, I think this site is useful, GOTD offers a fairly good selecton, usully full and up to date versons of software that you can use as a registered user, for free. Of course there are catches, to being free, that are stated in the "terms and conditions" with every download, "no updates", kind of sucks, and if you want to reformat your HD or move the program to another computer after the download period is over, it is not that easy to do, and then it may not be a legal copy anymore, that is kind of a grey area for me. Maybe one of the MODs could clarify that?
Compared with using a demo version, they are quite often not the full programs or is time limited. Quite often there are pressure tatics built right into demo software to buy, buy , buy; that has not happened in the software I downloaded and registered from here, so far.
I find it useful to compare with what I have already, trying out new types of software, that I am unfamilar with, and some of the games are not too bad. I have not kept very many programs that I have downloaded from here, but that is my own personal taste in software.
After all is said and done, it is a sales gimick, and I think a good one, you get to try befor you buy, without a lot of B.S. you may find in demo software, and if you like a particular piece of software enought to buy it, there is no harm in that.
Have a good one,
Barry