On 10/4/02 10:26 PM, "Bill Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's got to be tough for the authors of shareware products to see them in > use, especially one as popular as Interarchy, and know that so many users do > not pay. I guess it's hard to blame them for the change in policy. I hate to rant, but in this case I have little sympathy for the authors. I've been a registered user of Interarchy (both site licenses and personal license) since it was called Anarchie. I understand the need for shareware authors to realize a continuing revenue stream, but the "every bugfix/upgrade is a paid upgrade" policy with Interarchy lost me as a customer (and if comments on VersionTracker are to be believed I'm not the only one). The current version is more than a year old without upgrades or bugfixes and lacks proper sftp support. Its a safe bet that when sftp support is added it will be a paid upgrade again. This would not be unreasonable were it the case that the previous upgrades delivered on their promises, but instead there were several cases where a buggy upgrade were provided (notably MacOS X support in the 4.x series) only to be fixed in a paid upgrade (by many accounts Interarchy was broken on OS X until Interarchy 5). In short its an excellent tool, but it certainly isn't shareware by any reasonable definition (no try before you buy) and has an unfriendly pay-for-fix upgrade model. Something to consider before purchase. Alex -- Alex Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] ³We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.² - Tom Stoppard
