On 24 Jun, 2004, at 08:21 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
No one forces you to buy the upgrades every year.
Ahem.
David, you haven't used Fin2004 on a Mac.
Coda *is* in effect forcing us to buy Fin2005 by saying, "Okay, we realize that there are a lot of things that are still deeply screwed up about FinMac2004, but we have a budget for two maintenance releases and that's it. So after FinMac2004c (which I believe adds EPS support and nothing else), you're out of luck -- if you want any of the major outstanding issues with Fin2004 fixed, you'll have to buy Fin2005."
I understand why Coda is doing this, but I also understand why people are upset. Hell, *I'm* upset -- FinMac2004 has been like car wreck in slow motion. (It also sucks you in with its new expression tool, knowing that you'll give up everything else -- speed, stability, efficiency, reliability, the integrity of your own files -- because you can't do without auto-positioning dynamics.) Even after FinMac2004b, it's only borderline usable, and only then for people with the very latest hardware. Hell, the thing I'm working on now requires Fin2003, and after several months of using Fin2004, it's just *staggering* how much faster everything is in Fin2003 -- in *Classic.*
FinMac2004 remains beta-quality software, at best. By shutting down any further bugfixes on MacFin2004, Coda is basically extorting us into buying 2005 if we want a usable piece of software.
- Darcy
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