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
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