En/Je/On 2011-12-09 14:48, Marcel Kilgus escribió / skribis / wrote : > Marcos Cruz wrote: > > I see a contradiction here, Marcel: > > > > George's proposal sounds reasonable to me too, but you say probably there > > won't be any more paid upgrades, what means the actual end of QPC2's > > commercial life. If there's no comercial life left for QPC2, then I think > > there's no reason for a compensation. > > I don't see any contradiction.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I think George suggested to compensate you for the **future** copies of QPC2 that won't be sold if the program becomes without charge. So, if you already think there will be no payed upgrades any more, then I see no reason for that arrangement. That's what I meant by "contradiction". > When was the last paid-for upgrade? > That was 10 (TEN!) years ago. Everything after that I did for free. So > according to your reasoning QPC was already at the end of its > commercial life in 2001? No, it wasn't. Though there haven't been payed upgrades for ten years, the program itself has been in the "market" and people was able to purchase it. Of course its market is so small that there's little chance, if any, for new sells, so it mainly depends on upgrades. But anyway, in my opinion the end of a product's commercial life is more a personal decision of the author or the seller. The fact a program is rarely sold doesn't mean that it must change its status, of course. > > 3) If the answer to 2) is negative, would you publish at least a gratis > > unlimited version of QPC2? (Again, it seems the SMSQE/E's license is a > > limitation here). > > Eventually this was my plan. With some incentive this "eventually" > could move to "sooner", but I haven't decided ANYTHING yet. Ok. That explains the "contradiction" I saw: So you think a money compensation could be reasonable not because of the lost of future sells (that there won't be anyway) but by itself, a kind of compensation for all the done work, or just for the fact publishing an unlimited gratis version sooner. [Sometimes it's hard for me to get or properly explain certain subtle details because my English still lacks many nuances.] Marcos -- http://programandala.net _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
