on 10/6/01 7:35 AM, Peter Apockotos at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No what they would be doing is taking it from a company that does not care > how they get the money. The actual coders are paid by the company they work > for and in most cases the coder does not own the code. Also how do view a > compamy that releases an upgrade that was planned to be free or should be > free and charges an upgrade fee in order to just make more profit?
That's one of my biggest complaints about the software industry. Charging for bugfixes. If a car manufacturer sells me a defective product it's up to them to fix it. If the local cannery sells me bad tuna fish and I get sick from eating it then they are responsible for it. If M$ or Adobe or just about anyone else sells me software with bad code then they charge me to get the code fix?!?! With the DMCA I can't even decompile the code and fix it myself so I have no choice but to pay more for what I should have gotten in the first place. Current example, Hardware DVD decoding under OSX. If Apple fixes it they will probably roll the fix into an upgrade that must be paid for. Why should I buy the upgrade to get back functionality that Apple broke or at least didn't fix (possiblly on purpose) when they released 10.1? -- The views expressed here do not necessarily constitute a unanimous vote by all parts of the mind which created those views. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
