Dirk Harlaar said,
> Hello Neil
>> If you want to own both, buy both. The upgrade is just that, you are
>> moving from NC2 to NC3. If you trade in your car for a newer model, you
>> don't expect to keep the old car too.
> Okay, but then what are we "upgrading" to? I was lucky enough to get
> NetConnect 3 without anybody asking for my version 2 CD, so I guess I can
> still use X-Arc (should I for some reason feel the need to do so?)? But NC3
> is an upgrade, so there's some new programs on the compilation. If
> customers are required to return their NC2 CD's, surely the software that
> has not been updated for the NC3 version (such as X-Arc) should have been
> included on the NC3 version, even if it would be the old X-arc? In buying
> NetConnect 2, customers bought the right to use X-Arc. If they upgrade,
> they all of a sudden loose the right for which they paid?
Of course not. But the programmers of thing like X-Arc no longer get
royalties for it from NC3, so it can't go on the NC3 CD. You bought the
right ito use it when you bought NC2, upgrading doesn't affect that in
any way.
>> Maybe if people were more honest, this wouldn't be an issue. After NC2
>> came out, Active received a lot of registrations and support enquiries
>> from new "owners" of NC1, copies that had already been registered under
>> a different name.
> I can understand this. Surely the readers on this list will not act this
> way, but I would think less honoust users (who of course are not on this
> list) will gladly return their NC2 CD, but keep the programs they still use
> and are not on NC3 on their hard-disk.
That's not a problem. The problem was people upgrading from NC1 to NC2
and then *selling* their NC1 CDs. The new NC1 owners then tried to
register and get support, believing they had paid for such. This may be
dishonesty or it may be misunderstanding, but retrieving the CDs avoids
either. It's not a new idea, I've had to return old disks to upgrade
other software.
> Our honoust list readers however
> will return their NC2 CD, delete all things NC2 related from their system,
> then download X-Arc again from Vapor, and ask Vapor if they can please pay
> again to use a program they already paid for?
No, they use the software they paid for. What's wrong is reselling it
when they haven't bought a full NC3. Remember, people upgrading from NC2
to NC3 aren't paying the full price, they are paying for an upgrade
only. The upgraded software includes the original package, which means
two things:
They can still use software for the NC2 package
They cannot sell their copy of NC2 unless they stop using NC3 too
Neil
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