Couldn't be better put, Ken! Well said. Amen. -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire
Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmhh.co.uk/ http://rmhh.org.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ken Leavitt > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New Legacy Update - 23 March 2005, > Version 5.0.0.217 > > 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. > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
