A> The Ritlabs site says: You're right, it appears as if the update offer will be completely gone and that is just ridiculous for a couple of reasons: - The differences between 1.62 (especially 1.63beta) and 2.0 are not that huge after all. Of course a lot changed since 1.0, but that doesn't help the users who registered in July. To make it fair they should be allowed to upgrade any time later, when 2.0 offers enough improvement for them to be worth the upgrade. And don't anyone tell me that v2 has been 75% (or completely as Ritlabs announec months or years ago) newly programmed. Some same stupid bugs persist (like the line-wrap and the consequence that you can't Ctrl-Backspace over lines) and the program looks pretty much the same
- V2 is still pretty much a beta, just released to keep the announced date. I just installed it for a friend on a WinXP machine: The menu bar background stays white after having clicked on a menu, and then there were a couple of crashes (access violations), e.g. when purging folders. For more see TBBETA list. - It's something new that other companies haven't dared before. In the good old days updates where something like 20% of the price of a product. Once you bought it you had a license and the update price was relative to the percentage of new features (or something like that). Then big companies like MS came along who had to sell updates in stores and the update prices went up to 50% to 70% of the original product's price. Bad enough, but now the update availability is limited to two months while the product is not even stable. Sorry, that's too much, I'm not gonna pay it. I don't need the update now and if in a few months, when I think I'll want it, I'll have to pay the full price again, I'll just go get another email program like Mozilla. There at least I have an open developers' policy with a roadmap and multi-platform support. The advantage of The Bat are worth a price, but that's over the line, sorry. The argument that Ritlabs is a company and is free to do what they want doesn't count. Of course they can do what they want, but they have to live with the users' opionions and/or reactions to that. (no to get into the ethics stuff) I can't believe that there are people who take it for a fair option to buy the upgrade now and only start using it in a couple of months. Think about it, how ridiculous is that? Guti ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
