Hey Marijn, Thanks for understanding. If you or anyone else is in the same situation (bought a full license as a student before EDU pricing) send an email to support with a scan of your student card and we'll gladly refund you the difference.
Kindest regards, Koen Bok - madebysofa.com On Dec 11, 8:34 pm, Marijn Huizendveld <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
