Eric Dannewitz wrote:
But WHY do you want or NEED to run 6 year old software on a modern
computer??
I just don't get the mentality of people who want to run old software on
new hardware. Did bitch and moan when your 8 track tapes couldn't be
played anymore? Or when those LPs couldn't be played in your CD player?
I think that if you buy a program, and use it, and then buy new
hardware, you'd want to update all your programs to take advantage of
the new hardware.
I'm not jumping into this hornets' nest on either side, and I hope it
doesn't get to the level of someone being called Hitler, but just to
keep things in perspective, in response to Eric's statement I would like
to point out that "want to update" and "be able financially to update"
or "be able to update since the company has released a newer version"
are very different things, and that I may buy a new computer to be able
to one thing better but that doesn't mean I can spend $500-$1000
upgrading all my software which I only use occasionally or which does
what I need it to perfectly well even on the new machine.
Backwards compatibility, whether on macs or pcs, is a very good thing
and people shouldn't be put down for wanting to use 6-year old software
on a 1-week old machine. Developers do go out of business (didn't we
have a whole dustup on this list a few years ago about the potential for
us to all be using tethered software and have MakeMusic go out of
business without leaving an escrow key for us to unlock our licensed
software on new computers?) and sometimes it's impossible to buy new
versions of old programs (mac or pc).
To the best of my knowledge, all/most of the 8-track recordings were
released on cassettes and/or LPs and many have been released on CDs.
But there are still new turntables being sold so that people can listen
to their LPs which haven't been released on CDs. The poor chumps who
sunk money into 8-tracks are dead in the water once their 8-track
machines don't work anymore, if what they want to listen to has only
been released on 8-tracks.
Software is a bit different, though. Once a company's gone, if the
assets aren't bought at auction, the application's gone, and if new
hardware won't run it, anybody who is dependent on it is in deep doo-doo.
So sometimes it's an economic thing, not upgrading to all new software
when one buys a new computer, and other times it's simply a "we're out
of business and you lose because there ain't gonna be no new version" thing.
In either event, people should be able to expect backwards compatibility
within the same OS 'bloodline.'
In my opinion. Mac or PC.
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David H. Bailey
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