Gidday Dwight
On 04-Jan-00, you wrote:
> Firstly, I tried to respond to this thread via mollymail.com (at work).
> Sorry about that guys, somebody shoot me if I ever decide to do something
> as foolish as that again.
> It sent an advertisement that looked more like spam than a response to this
> thread.
>
>>> So where's that leave NC-2 users who may of purchased it within the
>>> last six months?
>>
>> Shit creek? Paddle?
>
> Perhaps, but my opinion is that the last update to NC2 was nearly a year
> ago. Yes, it's unfortunate that some people may have purchased it a few
> months before NC3 was released and I agree that there should have been a
> fix, but can it honestly be expected that Olli stop coding current
> projects (Like V� bugfixes, MDII) So he can fix older software?
. . .Whatever it takes for Olli to deliver what we have paid for.
> No, the most user friendly thing to do would be to continue to support the
> current software as awesome as Olli, Dave and others have done. If he can
> or is willing to fix it that's great and he should be commended, however
> it really shouldn't be expected of him. Again just MHO.
Some incentive we are given! NC2 is flawed so buy NC3? Do buyers of other consumer
goods do that?
Were people who bought atrocious crap from British Leyland 20 years ago obligated to
continue to
support them, or did they make the right choice in switching brands?
>
>> From Olli's point of view, I suppose it might mean a prospective loss of
>> sales - if people get the upgrade, carry on using it, and then along
>> comes a future release with even more wonderful features that they
>> would want, then they'd buy it then. If they don't get the bugfix, then
>> they'll migrate to an alternative mail/newsreader, and probably
>> forget all about MD-II.
>
> No, he'll forget about all of us if we don't upgrade.
>
> I know that some people can't afford it (trust me I just graduated college
> about 7 months ago.) I now spend less on beer and more on SoftWare. I've
> recently bought, OS3.5, Developer 2.1, CGFX 4, NC3, Photogenics 4, TP 7,
> Ibrowse 2, Digital Almanac II
Any of those badly bugged? If they are, don't worry about it, just buy a later
version! How would
you have felt if BoingBag had been a complete new release you had to pay for?
Regards
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