Hi everybody, Now that the issue around the educational pricing is resolved I finally feel I can voice my opinion. Although there are a lot of software companies (i.e. giant corporations with software monopolies) out there that really charge crazy prices I think that in the case of the versions team we can safely say they don't. I understand that Versions might be a little bit more expensive if you're not from europe but on the other hand people from europe get terrible conversions rates for their euros when it comes to soft- and hardware that is distributed by USA based companies. I also understand that it is too bad the team didn't respond within the timeframe they set out themselves. But, as this software is mostly used by people that are developers themselves, I think we all know that sometimes it's just impossible to get things done within the timeframe you set out, and like the team said many times before: EDU pricing was no priority over solving bugs. I think a lot of companies can learn from that... I understand that the software can take up a very large sum of your budget as a student, I know because I'm one myself. Although that might be the case I bought a license last week for the full price because I wanted/needed the software. It didn't matter much to me, besides using this for a very few student related tasks, I mostly use the software business related and think that I therefor should pay up. Just as much as I hate being raped by Adobe by charging me nearly €1000 for an upgrade to CS4 from CS2 I paid it as well because the software allows me to do my job which then again earns me my paycheck. Please take the time to think about what your sales and profit have been last year, then think about what your investments in capital have been and estimate your profit margin... Now think again about the price you are paying for this software... Do you still think it's insanely priced? Or do you really only need it for your study...? Cause in that case you can always switch to an open source solution or the command line which might not be as (visually) appealing as versions but it solves your budget problems and does the job as well.
This is in no way meant to kiss up to the Versions team, its just that I really thought there was a great atmosphere on this list until we hit the first release when suddenly everybody started to act really indecent. I really hope that we can put this behind us and be glad that there is finally a great GUI SVN client for the Mac. Kind regards, Marijn On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Dirk Stoop wrote: > > Thanks Davey, > > Good catch :) > > It's spelled correctly now. > > - Dirk > the Versions team > > On Dec 11, 6:30 pm, Davey Shafik <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Site licenses are also available, pricing for those starts to get >> intersting if you need more than 100 licenses for Versions. Tell us >> what your needs are and we'll gladly work out a cost-effective >> offer." >> >> you misspelled interEsting :) >> >> - Davey >> >> On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Koen Bok wrote: >> >> >> >>> Dear all, >> >>> We announced Volume and EDU pricing. Seehttps:// >>> register.madebysofa.com/versions/buy >>> for the details and sorry to keep you waiting. >> >>> Kindest regards, >> >>> Koen Bok - madebysofa.com >> >>> On Dec 10, 7:37 pm, Kerri Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, buckthorn wrote: >> >>>>> Pressing them (politely >>>>> and respectfully) for definitive info on this is entirely >>>>> justified. >> >>>> 2 key words there :) >> >>>> -k- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
