You may be right. The thing is, if you ever want to upgrade any of this
stuff, you generally have to pay for any upgrades you skip, so you might
as well just pay a license fee and get it over with. Isn't that what
the mainframe software companies used to do? I don't mind at all paying
for upgrades, I just want those upgrades to fix problems that are
causing me to pull my hair out. Also, if resources can be spent
improving the product or rewriting the interface to make it look like
the competition, I'd like to have a better product.
On 2/1/2011 20:41, Chip Orange wrote:
I like new features as much as anyone, but I'd pay just for bug fixes.
we've had them free for two years, along with new features every time.
I almost think a better model for software support is simply to pay by the
year. that way, we and the companies don't have to go through this each and
every release.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Pattison [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:28 PM
To: GW Info
Subject: Article: 13 Reasons why Software is not Free
Hi all,
In relation to the recent discussion on this list about the upgrade to WE
7.5 being a paid upgrade I thought people might like to read this article
that I thought makes some wise observations about why all software should
not be free. The article is at
http://goo.gl/053qL
I'm happy for WE 7.5 to be a paid upgrade given the new features that are
included in this version and I'd also be happy if WE 8 is a paid upgrade too
whenever that is released. Another reason why I'm happy to pay for software
is because I believe in some cases the old saying "you get what you pay for"
definitely applies to software.
Having said that I do use free and open source software as well. I think
there's a place for both free software and software that you have to pay
for.
Regards Steve
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