> You wouldn't have any software companies because the market had too many
>> barriers to enter and or endure.
>>
>
> This is the standard whine of all business people. When the regulations
> come, they stay in business and continue to make a profit. It's completely
> bogus.
> ----------------
>
I think that you are confusing your applications that are easy to apply an
update to with all other software.
Just because you think that it is correct to do it doesn't mean it is the
proper thing to do.
Do you have a vertical product or do you focus on a custom app one off type
of work? Your statements sound like you do a custom app and never deal
with them again. Instead of having a product with a lifecycle of X months
that are a true upgrade over the former version.
"Correct" in a business sense <> "ethical" in a moral sense.
Business people will often do what is economically "correct" even when it
is indisputably immoral. We can expect no better of them; that is why
governments have to regulate them.
My current product has been in use for about 5 years. I issue frequent
updates that contain both minor feature improvements, and bug fixes, for free.
Even when I eventually migrate it to a different language and/or back end,
I will continue to fix defects in the older version, for free, as long as
anyone uses it. That is the ethical thing to do.
IMO, it is reasonable to ask the same of any manufacturer of any product.
I am not in the for-profit world. Since I use either FOSS components or VFP
(which has no licensing requirements for end-user applications), I will not
even charge existing users for the completely new version when it becomes
available, since it will not do anything significantly different from what
the version they bought already does.
I think it is unethical to try to collected added money when there is no
real added value being provided.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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