Gleason wrote:
Stephane Bouvard wrote:
Hi Maxim,
Le dimanche 13 juin 2010 à 18:45:36, vous écriviez :
The registration system will be changed. We didn’t yet completely
figured out the final changes to the registration system, but the
preliminary changes are the following: registration will allow using
The Bat! for a particular period of time. It will not be bound to
version numbers as before. During this time period, the user will be
able to update to newer versions of The Bat! and receive technical
support. Upon the expiration of the term, no updates to newer
versions will be possible unless the user prolongs the period by
paying the fee.
Not a bad thing for me, *but* fix of existing bugs/vulnerabilities
must *always* be free, at least during a normal product life time...
for microsoft products it's near of 10 years (Microsoft provided
critical updates for Office 2k up to june 2009, and windows 2k to
june 2010... products availables since 1999)...
It will not be so easy to allow this with a registration period not
bound with the version number... if you find in 2018 a critical
vulnerabilities existing since version 5.0, how will you allow
customers with expired registration since 2012 to fix it without
paying anything ? (just an example)
Do not forget : security vulnerabilities are covered by the legal
warranty of any product as a latent defect, it's not limited by time...
There probably isn't much point in us discussing what Rit should do.
They will decide and let us know. MS is the only software provider I
know of that
provides fixes for past versions of anything. The overhead gets
overwhelming if you don't have very deep pockets. Legal warranties not
withstanding.
If a software company can even make the current version fixed and
better than previous, it is enough for me. A lot of them don't seem to
be able.
So who's on my list of the unable? Here's three for starters, all of
which I have paid for:
Pocomail
Pegasus
Chaos Intellect
Rit can stand tall when it compares itself to those.
--
Gleason
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