----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Heimlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New Legacy Update - 23 March 2005, Version 5.0.0.217
The point I was trying to make is that in a free market we have choices. If the product does not perform to our satisfaction, we can make our dissatisfaction known to provider; we can ask for our money back; we can learn enough to write our own program; or we can engage in a rant to anyone who will listen. Whatever makes you feel better.
This is very much like the argument that movie reviewers don't know movies and that sports writers don't know sports because they didn't play pro ball, etc. These points hold no water. Consumers SPEND MONEY and when money is spent the entire relationship changes. If the free version is buggy, frankly, that's really bad news for the coder as it freely shouts out that they're not very good at what they do. If the paid version is buggy, they deserve all the heat they get as the coder wouldn't accept such a result from other avenues in his own life so to make excuses for it is just unacceptable and in bad form.
This from a development manager (with a HEAVY quality assurance background) in the computer and console games industry going back to 1983.
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