BB Software
Vic,
I'm always entertained to see the fanatical lengths that people will go to try
to make a point. I don't even see the correlation.
If the car had been originally sold with gas (that never ran out!, Software
doesn't) then I would expect that if I had a car and no gas, I would be able to
get the version of gas that had originally been sold with it. I don't have a
problem with paying for an upgraded gas. But that is *not* what I'm looking
for. I just want the original gas to see if the car is worth the trouble.
What good is the gas(*hardware dependant*) if you don't have a car?
Macintosh owners have been able to get *hardware dependant software* eg. OS,
for years for free if they didn't want docs. This has always encouraged users
to upgrade the OS to recieve added functionality & maintain compatability.
With the last 7.1 release of software, Mac owners have had to pay. There has
been a tremendous backlash and many will never upgrade to 7.x from 6.x for this
reason. To the Macs detriment, they now have a fractured OS community. Does
that sound familiar? Does system 1.3 & 2.0.4 & 2.0.5 & 2.1 & 3.0 ring any
bells? Perhaps both Apple and C= could learn some lessons from this.
Once again *HARDWARE DEPENDANT SOFTWARE* sold, packaged, exclusively for & not
upgrade, intergrated parts of the same unit!
Matt