Grant,
We all defend your right to ask the question. It's a question that's been
asked a few hundred times here over the last 6 or so weeks. I'm suspecting
that you weren't here for all of that. That's OK. You have the right to ask.
However, NeTraverse is a company, and as such has a right to decide on
when and where they will comment on future products, capabilities and
prices. If they have chosen to delay that, for whatever reason, that's their
decision. We, as users, may not like it, but that is their right.
Like you, I'd like to know the price of my upgrade, but I suspect that
like you I'd much prefer to know the capabilities of the product. I don't
think there's a lot of value in knowing it's $9.95 or $49.95 without knowing
what it's going to do.
Different than you, I don't care AT ALL about 2.4 kernel support, so
we're waiting to see how NeTraverse positions this next revision.
Again, I defend your right to ask the question. We've been doing that for
200+ emails before you. ;-)
With best regards,
Mark
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Williamson
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Upgrade pricing structure.
Sheryl,
I am not looking to burn anyone.
If Mike feels in anyway offended by me asking "Whats it gonna cost",
please forgive me. That was never the intention.
The original mail I sent, was simply a question, if Netraverse choose to
answer it is of course entirely up to them.
Why myself ,and others may appear to be quite restless is the change in
policy from Netraverse, with regards beta testing & pricing.
Perhaps a little more openess, which is the at the heart of the linux
community (perhaps you have forgotten) would be very welcome.
Please do not forget that without us, your customer, you would not exist!
Regards,
Grant
On Monday 23 April 2001 21:29, you wrote:
> Grant,
>
> At issue when I posted was not that you weren't entitled to your opinion
> or entitled to the right to wonder - but rather that you were asking Mike
> (who gets the brunt of people's wrath again and again around here) to
> *speculate* on something where, no matter what his answer, you or other
> readers will likely be unhappy with it and will take it out on him. Why
> not just wait for the company to post its upgrade policy and then take
> your complaint to the people who make the decisions? I know that Mike is
> a tireless advocate for customers and faithfully takes their opinions "up
> the ladder". I know this because I work at NeTraverse (system
> administration). I don't think we should take advantage of that by
> asking him to post his conjecture and then either disliking the conjecture
> or trying to use what he posts as opinion to get something different from
> what the company finally offers.
>
> -Sheryl, de-lurking for one day only.
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Grant Williamson wrote:
> > Mark&Sheryl,
> > why I ask, is quite simple, I like a lot of people who have backed
> > Trelos/Netraverse from day one, did not feel that Win4Lin 2.0 was a real
> > 2.x release. You of course are quite entitled to your own opinion.
> >
> > If there is once again going to be a heavy price increase in Win4Lin, I
> > will have to consider whether Win4Lin is still a wise investment.
> >
> > Like I mentioned earlier, Win4Lin 2.0 runs fine for me, I only need
> > kernel 2.4x support. Not a new product.
> >
> > Grant.
>
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