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Shrook now free

Shrook, a full featured RSS reader for OS X, is now freeware according to Shrook developer Graham Parks. In an email to TUAW he assures us that development of Shrook will continue, the only thing that has changed is the price. Why the sudden change to freeware? To quote Graham, 'to piss off Brent Simmons if nothing else.'
Hey, I'm all for spite creating freeware, though I think I'll stick with NetNewsWire myself.

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RedDrum said 2:41PM on 4-25-2006
Just started to use Vienna, which -I think- is the best RSS viewer.
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Bill I said 3:09PM on 4-25-2006
This might sound a bit n00bish, but what's the real advantage to using a stand-alone (read: one-trick pony) RSS reader as opposed to, say, using the built-in RSS feature of Safari?
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Steve in Denmark said 3:56PM on 4-25-2006
I'm with Bill. I use the Safari RSS in appropriately named files up in the Bookmarks Bar there. Surf around, Safari checks every half an hour, RSS come in, number goes up, I check 'em. Perfect.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 3:58PM on 4-25-2006
Bill, my experience has been no one reader does it all. NNW comes close, but I'm just now trying Shrook. Safari kinda chokes on some things, or a lot of feeds... Besides, I like having a list view of threads, and be able to pop into a browser to see the pages.
One thing: my online Shrook account is supposed to expire in 2 weeks... what then?
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Reg said 7:35PM on 4-25-2006
Can you elaborate? Why would Graham Parks want to piss off Brent?
Is this some sort of petty jealousy over failing to take any of NetNewsWire's massive marketshare, or is there personal animosity between the two people?
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Nick said 10:49PM on 4-25-2006
Shrook seems cool and the best part is that its free. However, I'd go for NewsMac Pro, while NetNewsWire just plain sucks!
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Daniel said 12:22AM on 4-26-2006
uh, firefox?
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Reid Ellis said 1:38AM on 4-26-2006
Steve, Bill: Why use a browser like Safari when you can read everything in NewsFire?
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Dash said 4:01AM on 5-08-2006
It's all in good fun, I'm sure.
I'm going to check it out, but Vienna has been good to me so far.
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