What's the brouhaha about?
Look, netraverse is a commercial company. That means that they need to
SELL STUFF to stay in business. SELLING STUFF, as opposed to giving it
away, is not necessarily a bad thing; most of us make our living selling
something, even if it's just the time we put into a project.
If anyone has been following NASDAQ lately all the money has run out of
the tech stocks, and they're left on their own.
That means that those of us who use these products must pay for them, or
the companies making them will go belly up. We can't rely on venture
capitalists to finance our wants anymore.
OK, so I paid $50 for win4lin, and got to use it for 6 months before
having to buy an upgrade. That's $10 a months or less - heck, I spend
more than than on beer every week, and I certainly don't expect Corona
or Bud to keep refilling my pitcher for free.
Look at the value you receive, then the price you pay for it.
Win4lin is still a great deal, any way you slice it.
As for the kernel upgrade, the 2.4 kernels are new technology, so I
expect a new version of win4lin. And I don't really want Netraverse to
divert resources from improving win4lin to backporting win4lin to older
versions of the kernel, or to port an "obsolete" version of win4lin to a
new kernel.
This will be a market driven decision; I don't expect the market to be
large enough to justify such a port, especially since the vast majority
of those demanding the port are saying it should be free.....
Perhaps netraverse can release the API details so that some enterprising
hacker can create the necessary patches for the kernels. Maybe this
info is already available.
--Yan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In your message dated: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 22:30:50 BST,
> The pithy ruminations from Steve Loft on
> <Re: [Win4Lin-users] win4lin 3.0 upgrade brouhaha> were:
> => On Thursday 05 April 2001 10:02 pm, you wrote:
> =>
> => > bought v2.0, I want to get 3.0 for free. However, I wouldn't expect
> => > to get 4.0 and so forth for free, just as I think expecting to go
> => > from 1.0 to 3.0 for free is excessive. I think there should be some
> =>
> => You're missing the point totally. No-one's asking for a free upgrade.
> => What's being asked for is for the software that's already been paid for
> => to continue working with the current kernel for more than just a few
> => months.
>
> The software will continue to work with the current kernel--the kernel the
> software was written for--indefinetly. What people seem to be asking for is
> either:
>
> the software be changed to work with kernels that were released after
> Win4Lin was written
> or
> the newer features be backported to work with older kernels
>
> As far as I know, there's nothing that will make my copy of Win4Lin 2.0 stop
> working with my 2.2.18 kernel when release 3.0 comes out.
>
> Mark "just a user of Win4Lin--not speaking for Netraverse in any way" Bergman
>
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