"software tourists" - from now on I will be using this term
I'm just curious about stuff. I want to play with the trial, read the manual, see the data sheets and whitepapers, etc. But your stupid website demands my contact information. I'm not trying to waste your time, and if you'd just let me at the damn PDFs I wouldn't.
It's so that a few days after you download the PDF, someone can contact you and ask what you thought. I've been in that position a few times and I really appreciated it, because I was really busy and had totally forgotten to read the material.
Besides, it's a really, really good way to identify which companies are worth doing business with. You provide your contact info to five companies and then check to see which ones care enough to call you vs. just spam you with junk. IME signals like that matter as much as the product itself.
Yeah, that scales really well for both of us.
cd \\rackstation\raid\pdf
dir /s
. . .
Total Files Listed:
128297 File(s) 195,523,570,325 bytes
22700 Dir(s) 8,922,298,789,888 bytes free
Know how I can tell you're not an EE?