As someone who ran his own business in the not too distant past, I can
testify to purchasing software that was represented to do various things
that in reality proved otherwise. This software was MS-Dos based, cost
several thousand dollars initially, required the user to purchase an annual
"maintenance" contract for several hundred dollars, came out with new
versions whenever they got around to it, included buggy code with every
version, and included only new features that the software company felt would
be helpful in expanding their customer base by the greatest number. Each new
version "fixed" some existing problems, and usually created new ones that
the software company "fixed" whenever they found the time and had enough
customers screaming bloody murder. One of the problems the company faced,
and I am sure any software developer faces is that each end user has
different ideas about how they want the software to work, and the end user
cannot understand why the company doesn't drop everything and rewrite their
code to meet the end user's particular needs. Yet in spite of it all, this
company has thrived and provides the software of choice in their highly
competitive industry. When you hold that up against the Legacy software,
that is free in its basic form, and costs 20 to 30 dollars in its deluxe
version with no charge for updates and which releases updates as often as
they do, my sense is your energies would be better directed to writing a
software program that does everything exactly the way you would like it and
then see whether the marketplace agrees. Obviously, no one wants software
that has bugs, but I would with all due respect point out that the world
wide acceptance of this product, evidenced by the vast array of end users
from different countries that participate in this user's group seem to say
Legacy is doing something right. Just my humble opinion.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob
Janetzko
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 7:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] New Legacy Update - 23 March 2005, Version
5.0.0.217
Hellooooo??? The whole point was that if they tested their code before
releasing it, THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR FIXES.
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