Kevin, I agree, this is a very useful and insightful post about the updating / upgrading timing contrainst you're working against. I'm glad you're a) willing to make a profit from this and b) have keep the customer support oriented spirit that Mac users are more financially supportive of.
- Jake On Dec 23, 4:15 pm, "John Masters" <[email protected]> wrote: > Kevin, this is absolutely GREAT. Thank you for the insight into the > development process from a commercial point of view. What a > wonderfully customer orientated outlook. With this approach I would > probably purchase Moneywell even if I didn't have a bank account :) > > To be serious, I recently purchased Bento Database v1. Two weeks later > they released version 2. I was not informed of the upgrade and it was > only through Googling that I found how to get a free upgrade; only > available to purchasers within 4 weeks of the upgrade. But kept VERY > quiet. > > Over the past twenty years I have spent a lot of money on shareware > and also donated to freeware projects such as NeoOffice but it is a > fraction of the amount I would have spent if all software were > controlled by 2 or 3 big corporations. > > Long live (and support) independant software devs. > > Just my 5p worth > > John > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > > FYI, > > I posted a new blog entry regarding my opinion about charging for updates > > (if anyone is interested): > >http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-or-fee.html > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > > [email protected] > > No Thirst Software LLC > >http://nothirst.com > >http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
