I don't know know, maybe it is just me, but it seems that Netraverse does
not want to release its source to the hackers. As a small company, their
"development" staff may consist of just a couple of people. If they want to
develop and maintain it themselves and generate a living from it, what is
the problem?
I also do not see where anyone was misled. Before I purchased Win4Lin, I
read everything I could about it. I asked questions. Nowhere did it say that
the current version will be modified to work with every new version of the
kernel and every distro. In fact they clearly stated what kernel version are
supported.
Again, I feel everyone is entitled to voice their opinions, but really, this
is going too far. They simply want to intoduce kernel 2.4.x support in ver
3, not ver 2. I just don't see that as being so bad. They have yet to
announce the upgrade pricing, well, it is their income that will be
affected, so I imagine a lot of thought is going into it. This will be the
first time they charge for an upgrade seeing as though it was free from ver
1 to 2.
So all we can do is wait. For what it is worth Netraverse an upgrade price
in the $29.00 to $39.00 range would be the norm in the Windows world for the
downloaded version.
Jose
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Gonyou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Upgrade pricing structure.
> Well, if you're referring to Mike Badger, He's the Customer Support
> Manager, not just a tech. The unfortunate thing is that if 'he' is getting
> crap for info, he is unwilling to give it to us for fear of retraction, as
> that has been the problem in the past. I still emplor(?) the Netraverse
> folks to be more forthcoming with Development info and let hackers hack
> already, so they can 1. Use the prerelease software and feel like kewl
> kids, and 2. So Netraverse doesn't have to spend time paying tons of Beta
> Testers or searching for them. Bug-Buddy and BugZilla seem to work ok.
> Perhaps a SourceForge On-Site implementation could help with this and keep
> everyone sane? Just a thought.
>
> --
> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jose wrote:
>
> > I think you may have missed the point. The Netraverse tech has said over
and
> > over again that he has no idea what the pricing will be. Yet he is
repeatly
> > getting slammed. He is a tech, not in marketing or obivously in the
decision
> > making process as far as pricing goes.
> >
> > Question of how the current software behaves, he can answer. Questions
on
> > the upgrade price from ver 1 to 3, he can't.
> >
> > He seems decent enough, somI am inclined to believe him, especially
since I
> > know how tight lipped management can be.
> >
> > Jose
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Upgrade pricing structure.
> >
> >
> > > At 10:05 AM 4/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >Larry let me inform you that you completely missed his point.
> > >
> > > I'm also sensing a tendency towards suppression of alternate views
here.
> > > Just shut up and take what you're given when you're given it. Don't
ask
> > > questions, especially the hard ones. Don't make waves; maintain an
even
> > > strain. Of course I could be wrong, but that's what I'm getting
lately. I
> > > think this might be an example of what some open source pundits
predicted
> > > would be a problem with mixing open and closed source.
> > >
> > >
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