garym;663828 Wrote: > I agree this is obvious. I guess I must just think about these things > differently. I had already done donations to erland for his good work > prior to this pricing in an amount in excess of what he now charges for > a lifetime license. And I primarly only use SQL Playlist and Dynamic > Playlists. But I do the same with mp3tag and other "free" programs. > > There is no free lunch. The explicit cost is paying someone for the > product. The implicit cost is losing future devlopment on useful > plugins. Whether the price is a good price or not, I don't know. But a > lifetime license for all his plugins for the cost of 3 to 6 CDs, seems > like a bargain to me.
Listen I do not think anyone is arguing that erland should not be able to charge for his product. Hell he can charge whatever he wants. My point is his approach and fee are such that I will not be paying for it. If he charged less or provided something new in this new version other than requiring a license he would get my money. Note this is MY requirements and no one else's if you feel it is properly priced great, I do not and will not buy it. This is not a bash on erland. In fact just the opposite, I want to buy the product but not at it's current price/value ratio. Lifetime license are not something I normally buy into mainly because they are only worth as much as the company behind them and in this case it is a single guy who while I do not think is going to stop anytime soon but if he did that license is not very useful. FYI - I work as software developer -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
