Hello Neil
On 04-jan-00, you wrote:
> firstly, he doesn't have to stop coding existing projects, he only has
> to compile an NC2 version of MD 1.4.4. Secondly, why shouldn't he take
> time to fix it, it was his bug? It's not like no one knew the
> millennium was going to happen, it's been expected for two thousand
> years :-O
Sorry, have to disagree with you here. Since the counting of the years only
started a couple of hundred years AC, this millenium has only been expected
for about 1700 years (give or take a few).
Anyway, this whole thread is getting ridiculous. People on the one hand
thinking that MD would have to be completely rewritten, causing a
standstill at all other Vapor software, where all that needs to be done is
the adding of searching for an NC2 keyfile to an already existing program.
People claiming that it can only be expected from people who bought current
software (in September 1999 NC2 was still the latest version, NC3 first
came out around the Cologne show), that they buy new software just to get
an obvious bug fixed, that has been known for some time to both the
programmers and the users. People claiming we need to support Amiga
software, and so we need to buy NC3 anyway, because Vapor would have to
stop producing if we don't? Sorry, but I'm a customer, I pay for what I
use, and expect it to have basic functionality. Even Micro$oft claim that
any software sold after 1998 is Y2K compliant! Why would I have to support
Vapor, if they don't care about supporting me? IIRC, I pay them to have the
right to use their software, it's me (and all others on this list) who
support them with our money, and it's the job of the programmers to support
us, the paying customers, with software that is as good as possible. I know
that software is never finished and all, but we are not asking much from
the vapor team: just add a line to the working version of MD, telling MD to
search for NC2 keyfile as well as NC3 keyfile, and function as normal with
either of those.
On the other hand, note that no-one from Vapor has said anything on this
subject yet. It might very well be that they are compiling a new version of
MD for NC2 users as I type this. I'm not having problems anyway, because I
decided to buy NC3 to support Vapor and Active, so I could in theory be
using MD without problems. I'm not, because MD still lacks features that I
do find in YAM, which is freeware anyway. I also hardly ever use any of the
other programs from NC3, but that's my personal preference. (Sure, the
bugfixes in V� have been great, and show me that Vapor is still on the
ball, but I like another browser better, strICQ works better for me than
the ICQ thingy in NC3, MetalWeb is so slow, that I can have an entire
homepage created with handwritten html before MetalWeb had a chance to open
al its windows). I was bitten by the same bug: support the authors of
software, because they might stop developing for the Amiga if I don't.
Well, I don't care if developers of software that I don't use stop
developing their stuff. So I stop supporting them. I'd rather spend the
same amount of money (or more) to support developers of software that I do
use. I will continue downloading any free updates/bugfixes that appear for
NC3, since I paid for it, and who knows, I might even start using it one
day, but no, I will not pay any money for a simple bug-fix that would take
a programmer five minutes to write and maybe 10 minutes to recompile (if he
has a very slow processor).
Dirk
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