This is going a little far a field, but what would people think about a law enforcing what we expect any way? I imagine something along the lines of "If a software package is sold with a list of published/advertised features, those features must work or fixes must be provided." (Of course, you would only want this to apply to large market products and not custom or niche market apps.) Require working software? What a thought...
Ben BC Web ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:11 PM Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail 7.1 upgrade costs: pragmatic reality > Reply to: Tom > Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 7.1 upgrade costs: pragmatic reality on Wednesday 7:11:14 PM > > If we are getting truly pragmatic, my impression is the same as > earlier upgrades. There are things I do not really need or are > already available for some time in Declude. > > The fact is that no company should charge for bug fixes if the > features were promised in an originally purchased version and not > delivered. It is also generally unwise marketing to charge a > fortune for something that is available from an add-on at far > less cost. > > When I read the general features added to 7.1 I kinda shrugged my > shoulders and said to my self, 'Gee, I already have that and more > in Declude products at far less cost.'.. or so it seems. The > features 7.1 mostly premised the prepurchase of an overly > expensive antivirus solution with proportionally much less > features. As far as 128bit SSL, none of our users have asked for > SSL at all. So if I were being really pragmatic about my Imail > upgrades relative to 7.1, I'd just purchase Declude... unless SSL > was a big issue. > > -- > Roger Heath > > -- > ActivatorMail(tm) ver.050102 Scanned for all viruses by > www.activatormail.com intelligent anti-virus anti-spam service > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
